On computing homology gradients over finite fields

DOI10.1017/S0305004116000657zbMATH Open1375.22006arXiv1410.1693OpenAlexW176131108MaRDI QIDQ5360445FDOQ5360445

Authors: Łukasz Grabowski, Thomas Schick 

Publication date: 28 September 2017

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently the so-called Atiyah conjecture about l^2-Betti numbers has been disproved. The counterexamples were found using a specific method of computing the spectral measure of a matrix over a complex group ring. We show that in many situations the same method allows to compute homology gradients, i.e. generalizations of l^2-Betti numbers to fields of arbitrary characteristic. As an application we point out that (i) the homology gradient over any field of characteristic different than 2 can be an irrational number, and (ii) there exists a finite CW-complex with the property that the homology gradients of its universal cover taken over different fields have infinitely many different values.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.1693

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zbMATH Keywords

universal coverAtiyah conjecturefinite \(CW\)-complex\(l^2\)-Betti numberhomology gradient

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Group algebras of locally compact groups (22D15) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

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