Approximating L2‐invariants and the Atiyah conjecture

DOI10.1002/CPA.10076MaRDI QIDQ4425982zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Józef Dodziuk, Peter A. Linnell, Varghese Mathai, Thomas Schick, Stuart G. Yates

Publication date 15 September 2003

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0107049

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^2\)-Betti numbers\(L^2\)-index theorem\(L^2\)-invariantsamenable extensionsstrong Atiyah conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: Let G be a torsion free discrete group and let �ar{Q} denote the field of algebraic numbers in C. We prove that �ar{Q}[G] fulfills the Atiyah conjecture if G lies in a certain class of groups D, which contains in particular all groups which are residually torsion free elementary amenable or which are residually free. This result implies that there are no non-trivial zero-divisors in C[G]. The statement relies on new approximation results for L2-Betti numbers over �ar{Q}[G], which are the core of the work done in this paper. Another set of results in the paper is concerned with certain number theoretic properties of eigenvalues for the combinatorial Laplacian on L2-cochains on any normal covering space of a finite CW complex. We establish the absence of eigenvalues that are transcendental numbers, whenever the covering transformation group is either amenable or in the Linnell class mathcal{C}. We also establish the absence of eigenvalues that are Liouville transcendental numbers whenever the covering transformation group is either residually finite or more generally in a certain large bootstrap class mathcal{G}. Please take the errata to Schick: "L2-determinant class and approximation of L2-Betti numbers" into account, which are added at the end of the file, rectifying some unproved statements about "amenable extension". As a consequence, throughout, amenable extensions should be extensions with normal subgroups.

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