A functional analysis proof of Gromov's polynomial growth theorem

zbMATH Open1474.20083arXiv1510.04223MaRDI QIDQ4584309FDOQ4584309

Authors: Narutaka Ozawa 

Publication date: 30 August 2018

Abstract: The celebrated theorem of Gromov asserts that any finitely generated group with polynomial growth contains a nilpotent subgroup of finite index. Alternative proofs have been given by Kleiner and others. In this note, we give yet another proof of Gromov's theorem, along the lines of Shalom and Chifan--Sinclair, which is based on the analysis of reduced cohomology and Shalom's property H_FD.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04223

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zbMATH Keywords

reduced cohomologyharmonic 1-cocycles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Nilpotent groups (20F18)

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