Proper proximality for various families of groups
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Abstract: In this paper, the notion of proper proximality (introduced in [BIP18]) is studied and classified in various families of groups. We show that if a group acts non-elementarily by isometries on a tree such that for any two edges, the intersection of their edge stabilizers is finite, then G is properly proximal. We show that the wreath product Gwr H is properly proximal if and only if H is non-amenable. We then completely classify proper proximality among graph products of non-trivial groups. Our results generalize recent work of Duchesne, Tucker-Drob and Wesolek classifying inner amenability for these families of groups. Our results also recover some rigidity results associated to the group von Neumann algebras, by virtue of being properly proximal. A key idea in the proofs of our theorems is a technique to upgrade from relative proper proximality using computations in the double dual of the small at infinity boundary.
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