The Tarski numbers of groups

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2015.07.010zbMATH Open1327.43002arXiv1401.2202OpenAlexW1548763348MaRDI QIDQ499286FDOQ499286

Authors: Gili Golan, Mikhail Ershov, Mark Sapir 

Publication date: 30 September 2015

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Tarski number of a non-amenable group G is the minimal number of pieces in a paradoxical decomposition of G. In this paper we investigate how Tarski numbers may change under various group-theoretic operations. Using these estimates and known properties of Golod-Shafarevich groups, we show that the Tarski numbers of 2-generated non-amenable groups can be arbitrarily large. We also use the cost of group actions to show that there exist groups with Tarski numbers 5 and 6. These provide the first examples of non-amenable groups without free subgroups whose Tarski number has been computed precisely.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2202

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zbMATH Keywords

costamenabilityparadoxical decompositionTarski number\(L^2\)-Betti numberGolod-Shafarevich groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Geometric group theory (20F65) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50)

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