Convergence of normalized Betti numbers in nonpositive curvature

DOI10.1215/00127094-2022-0029MaRDI QIDQ6046450zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Miklós Abért, Nicolas Bergeron, Ian Biringer, Tsachik Gelander

Publication date 11 May 2023

Published in Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02520, https://hal-ens.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02634432

zbMATH Keywords

Betti numbersBenjamini-Schramm convergencelocally symmetric spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Differential geometry of homogeneous manifolds (53C30) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Homology and cohomology of homogeneous spaces of Lie groups (57T15)

Abstract: We study the convergence of volume-normalized Betti numbers in Benjamini-Schramm convergent sequences of non-positively curved manifolds with finite volume. In particular, we show that if $X$ is an irreducible symmetric space of noncompact type, $Xeqmathbb{H}^3$, and $(M_n)$ is any Benjamini-Schramm convergent sequence of finite volume $X$-manifolds, then the normalized Betti numbers $b_k(M_n)/vol(M_n)$ converge for all $k$. As a corollary, if $X$ has higher rank and $(M_n)$ is any sequence of distinct, finite volume $X$-manifolds, the normalized Betti numbers of $M_n$ converge to the $L^2$ Betti numbers of $X$. This extends our earlier work with Nikolov, Raimbault and Samet, where we proved the same convergence result for uniformly thick sequences of compact $X$-manifolds.

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