Amenability and paradoxical decompositions for pseudogroups and for discrete metric spaces

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Authors Pierre de la Harpe, R. I. Grigorchuk, Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein

Publication date 20 August 2001

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04212

zbMATH Keywords

amenabilitydiscrete metric spacesparadoxical decompositionspseudogroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

Abstract: This is an expostion of various aspects of amenability and paradoxical decompositions for groups, group actions and metric spaces. First, we review the formalism of pseudogroups, which is well adapted to stating the alternative of Tarski, according to which a pseudogroup without invariant mean gives rise to paradoxical decompositions, and to defining a F{o}lner condition. Using a Hall-Rado Theorem on matchings in graphs, we show then for pseudogroups that existence of an invariant mean is equivalent to the F{o}lner condition; in the case of the pseudogroup of bounded perturbations of the identity on a locally finite metric space, these conditions are moreover equivalent to the negation of the Gromov's so-called doubling condition, to isoperimetric conditions, to Kesten's spectral condition for related simple random walks, and to various other conditions. We define also the minimal Tarski number of paradoxical decompositions associated to a non-amenable group action (an integer $ge4$), and we indicate numerical estimates (Sections II.4 and IV.2). The final chapter explores for metric spaces the notion of supramenability, due for groups to Rosenblatt.

Review text

The article is dedicated to a wide variety of questions connected with amenability and paradoxical decompositions for pseudogroups and discrete metric spaces. The authors effectively demonstrate that paradoxical decompositions are associated with amenability and not with the property of ``exponential growth [compare with \textit{W. A. Deuber}, \textit{M. Simonowitz} and \textit{V. T. Sós}, Stud. Sci. Math. Hung. 30, 17-23 (1995; Zbl 0857.54030)]. It is proven that the existence of invariant means for pseudogroups is equivalent to Følner's condition. The authors define the Tarski number as the minimal number of pieces in paradoxical decompositions associated with nonamenable group actions and give estimates for this number. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0942.00074].

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