The K-theory of Gromov’s translation algebras and the amenability of discrete groups

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04056-2MaRDI QIDQ4372355zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gábor Elek

Publication date 11 December 1997

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9939-97-04056-2

zbMATH Keywords

amenabilityfinitely generated groupstranslation algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

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• Uniform \(K\)-homology theory
• Amenability of coarse spaces and \(\mathbb {K}\)-algebras
• Amenability and uniform Roe algebras
• Uniformly recurrent subgroups and simple \(C^{\ast}\)-algebras
• Stable finiteness of group rings in arbitrary characteristic
• K-theoretic amenability for \(SL_ 2({\mathbb{Q}}_ p)\), and the action on the associated tree
• Gromov's translation algebras, growth and amenability of operator algebras
• Asymptotic invariants of finitely generated algebras. A generalization of Gromov's quasi-isometric viewpoint.
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• ON ALGEBRAS THAT HAVE ALMOST FINITE DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATIONS
• Generating numbers of rings graded by amenable and supramenable groups
• Strong almost finiteness

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