Weakly amenable groups

MaRDI QIDQ4781985zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Denis Osin

Publication date 27 November 2002

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03634

zbMATH Keywords

amenable groupfinitely generated grouphyperbolic groupleft regular representationstorsion group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07)

Abstract: In this paper, a group is called weakly amenable if its left regular representation is not uniformly isolated from the trivial representation. First examples of finitely generated non-amenable weakly amenable groups are constructed.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a discrete and finitely generated group. For a subset \(S\) of \(G\), \(\alpha(G,S)\) is defined to be the supremum of all \(\varepsilon \geq 0\) such that, for every \(f\in L^2(G)\) with \(\|f\|_2=1\), there exists an element \(s\in S\) satisfying \(\|_sf- f\|_2\geq \varepsilon\). The left regular representation of \(G\) is said to be uniformly isolated from the trivial representation if \(\alpha(G)=\inf_S \alpha (G,S)>0\), where \(S\) ranges over all finite generating sets of \(G\). In this paper, the author constructs the first examples of finitely generated nonamenable groups \(G\) with \(\alpha(G)=0\), i.e. the left regular representations of \(G\) are not uniformly isolated from the trivial representation. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0994.00026].

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