Hilbert space compression for free products and HNN-extensions.

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2011.08.012MaRDI QIDQ647629zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dennis Dreesen

Publication date 24 November 2011

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3879

zbMATH Keywords

finitely generated groupsfree productsquasi-isometriesBass-Serre theoryHNN-extensionsequivariant Hilbert space compressionuniform embeddability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Geometric group theory (20F65) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Embeddings of discrete metric spaces into Banach spaces; applications in topology and computer science (46B85) Selfadjoint operator algebras ((C^*)-algebras, von Neumann ((W^*)-) algebras, etc.) (46L99)

Abstract: Given the Hilbert space compression of two groups, we find bounds on the Hilbert space compression of their free product. We also investigate the Hilbert space compression of an HNN-extension of a group relative to a finite normal subgroup or a finite index subgroup.

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