Hilbert space compression for free products and HNN-extensions.

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2011.08.012zbMATH Open1256.20041arXiv1002.3879OpenAlexW2029114392MaRDI QIDQ647629FDOQ647629

Authors: Dennis Dreesen 

Publication date: 24 November 2011

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

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.

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

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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)

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• Compression of uniform embeddings into Hilbert space.
• Asymptotic dimension and uniform embeddings.
• Equivariant compression of certain direct limit groups and amalgamated free products
• Hilbert space compression for free products and HNN-extensions.
• Positive definite functions and cut-off for discrete groups
• Metrics on diagram groups and uniform embeddings in a Hilbert space.
• Uniform embeddability and exactness of free products.
• Hilbert space compression and exactness of discrete groups.

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