L^2-Betti numbers of one-relator groups.

DOI10.1007/S00208-006-0058-YzbMATH Open1190.20021arXivmath/0508370OpenAlexW3104056274MaRDI QIDQ996009FDOQ996009

Authors: Warren Dicks, Peter A. Linnell 

Publication date: 11 September 2007

Published in: Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We determine the L^2-Betti numbers of all one-relator groups and all surface-plus-one-relation groups (surface-plus-one-relation groups were introduced by Hempel who called them one-relator surface groups). In particular we show that for all such groups G, the L^2-Betti numbers b_n^{(2)}(G) are 0 for all n>1. We also obtain some information about the L^2-cohomology of left-orderable groups, and deduce the non-L^2 result that, in any left-orderable group of homological dimension one, all two-generator subgroups are free.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508370

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zbMATH Keywords

Betti numbersone-relator groupssurface groupshomological dimensiontwo-generator subgroupsleft orderable groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings (16S34) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60)

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