Lamplighter groups, median spaces, and Hilbertian geometry

DOI10.1017/S0013091522000190MaRDI QIDQ6286170arXivFDO

Authors Anthony Genevois

Publication date 2 May 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67)

Abstract: From any two median spaces $X,Y$, we construct a new median space $XcircledastY$, referred to as the diadem product of $X$ and $Y$, and we show that this construction is compatible with wreath products in the following sense: given two finitely generated groups $G,H$ and two (equivariant) coarse embeddings into median spaces $X,Y$, there exist a(n equivariant) coarse embedding $GwrHoXcircledastY$. As an application, we prove that ${\displaystyle }$alpha_1(G wr H) geq min(alpha_1(G),alpha_1(H))/2 ext{ for all finitely generated groups $G,H$,}${\displaystyle }$ where $alph{a}_1(cdot)$ denotes the $el{l}^1$-compression. As an other consequence, we recover several well-known theorems related to the Hilbertian geometry of wreath products from a unified point of view: the characterisation of wreath products satisfying Kazhdan's property (T) or the Haagerup property, as well as their discrete versions (FW) and (PW).

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