A homological characterization of topological amenability

zbMATH Open1251.43001MaRDI QIDQ441104FDOQ441104

Authors Jacek Brodzki, Piotr W. Nowak, Nick Wright, Graham Niblo

Publication date 20 August 2012

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4154

zbMATH Keywords

exact groupstopological amenabilityuniformly finite homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Noncommutative dynamical systems (46L55) Variational aspects of group actions in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E40)

Abstract: Generalizing Block and Weinberger's characterization of amenability we introduce the notion of uniformly finite homology for a group action on a compact space and use it to give a homological characterization of topological amenability for actions. By considering the case of the natural action of $G$ on its Stone-vCech compactification we obtain a homological characterization of exactness of the group, answering a question of Nigel Higson.

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