Stability and Invariant Random Subgroups

DOI10.1215/00127094-2019-0024MaRDI QIDQ6296915arXivFDO

Authors Oren Becker, Alexander Lubotzky, Andreas Thom

Publication date 25 January 2018

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1215/00127094-2019-0024

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory for infinite permutation groups (20B07) Symmetric groups (20B30) Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: Consider $operatornameSym(n)$, endowed with the normalized Hamming metric $d_n$. A finitely-generated group $Gamma$ is emph{P-stable} if every almost homomorphism $h{o}_{n_k}colonGammaightarrowoperatornameSym(n_k)$ (i.e., for every $g,hinGamma$, $li{m}_{kightarrowinfty}{d}_{n_k}(h{o}_{n_k}(gh),h{o}_{n_k}(g)h{o}_{n_k}(h))=0$) is close to an actual homomorphism $varph{i}_{n_k}colonGammaightarrowoperatornameSym(n_k)$. Glebsky and Rivera observed that finite groups are P-stable, while Arzhantseva and Pu{a}unescu showed the same for abelian groups and raised many questions, especially about P-stability of amenable groups. We develop P-stability in general, and in particular for amenable groups. Our main tool is the theory of invariant random subgroups (IRS), which enables us to give a characterization of P-stability among amenable groups, and to deduce stability and instability of various families of amenable groups.

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