Stability, cohomology vanishing, and nonapproximable groups

DOI10.1017/FMS.2020.5zbMATH Open1456.22002arXiv1711.10238OpenAlexW3014166688MaRDI QIDQ5222162FDOQ5222162

Andreas Thom, Alexander Lubotzky, Marcus de Chiffre, Lev Glebsky

Publication date: 1 April 2020

Published in: Forum of Mathematics, Sigma (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Several well-known open questions (such as: are all groups sofic/hyperlinear?) have a common form: can all groups be approximated by asymptotic homomorphisms into the symmetric groups $mathrmSym(n)$ (in the sofic case) or the finite dimensional unitary groups $mU(n)$ (in the hyperlinear case)? In the case of $mU(n)$, the question can be asked with respect to different metrics and norms. This paper answers, for the first time, one of these versions, showing that there exist fintely presented groups which are not approximated by $mU(n)$ with respect to the Frobenius norm $|T{|}_{mFrob}=sqrtsu{m}_{i,j=1}^n|T_{ij}{|}^2,T=[T_{ij}{]}_{i,j=1}^{n}inmathrm{M}_n(mathbbC)$. Our strategy is to show that some higher dimensional cohomology vanishing phenomena implies stability, that is, every Frobenius-approximate homomorphism into finite-dimensional unitary groups is close to an actual homomorphism. This is combined with existence results of certain non-residually finite central extensions of lattices in some simple $p$-adic Lie groups. These groups act on high rank Bruhat-Tits buildings and satisfy the needed vanishing cohomology phenomenon and are thus stable and not Frobenius-approximated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10238

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilityapproximate representationgroup cohomologyhyperlinear groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cohomology of groups (20J06) Ultraproduct techniques in Banach space theory (46B08) Linear algebraic groups over local fields and their integers (20G25) Kazhdan's property (T), the Haagerup property, and generalizations (22D55)

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