On the center-valued Atiyah conjecture for L^2-Betti numbers

zbMATH Open1376.46053arXiv1605.09069MaRDI QIDQ526156FDOQ526156

Peter A. Linnell, Anselm Knebusch, Thomas Schick

Publication date: 10 May 2017

Published in: Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The so-called Atiyah conjecture states that the von Neumann dimensions of the L2-homology modules of free G-CW-complexes belong to a certain set of rational numbers, depending on the finite subgroups of G. In this article we extend this conjecture to a statement for the center-valued dimensions. We show that the conjecture is equivalent to a precise description of the tructure as a semisimple Artinian ring of the division closure D(QG) of Q[G] in the ring of affiliated operators. We prove the conjecture for all groups in Linnell's class C, containing in particular free-by-elementary amenable groups. The center-valued Atiyah conjecture states that the center-valued L2-Betti numbers of finite free G-CW-complexes are contained in a certain discrete subset of the center of C[G], the one generated as an additive group by the center-valued traces of all projections in C[H], where H runs through the finite subgroups of G. Finally, we use the approximation theorem of Knebusch for the center-valued $L^2$-Betti numbers to extend the result to many groups which are residually in C, in particular for finite extensions of products of free groups and of pure braid groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.09069

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zbMATH Keywords

von Neumann dimension\(L^2\)-Betti numbersAtiyah conjecturecenter-valued trace

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K)-theory and operator algebras (including cyclic theory) (46L80) Linear operator approximation theory (47A58) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10)

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