On computing homology gradients over finite fields

DOI10.1017/S0305004116000657MaRDI QIDQ5360445zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Łukasz Grabowski, Thomas Schick

Publication date 28 September 2017

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

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

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)

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.

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