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Ana Khukhro

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arXiv2022

Uniform Roe algebras of uniformly locally finite metric spaces are rigid

We show that if $X$ and $Y$ are uniformly locally finite metric spaces whose uniform Roe algebras, $\cstu(X)$ and $\cstu(Y)$, are isomorphic as \cstar-algebras, then $X$ and $Y$ are coarsely equivalent metric spaces. Moreover, we show that coarse equivalence between $X$ and $Y$ is equivalent to Morita equivalence between $\cstu(X)$ and $\cstu(Y)$. As an application, we obtain that if $Γ$ and $Λ$ are finitely generated groups, then the crossed products $\ell_\infty(Γ)\rtimes_rΓ$ and $ \ell_\infty(Λ)\rtimes_rΛ$ are isomorphic if and only if $Γ$ and $Λ$ are bi-Lipschitz equivalent.

math.OA↗

arXiv2021

On the structure of asymptotic expanders

In this paper, we use geometric tools to study the structure of asymptotic expanders and show that a sequence of asymptotic expanders always admits a "uniform exhaustion by expanders". It follows that asymptotic expanders cannot be coarsely embedded into any $L^p$-space, and that asymptotic expanders can be characterised in terms of their uniform Roe algebra. Moreover, we provide uncountably many new counterexamples to the coarse Baum--Connes conjecture. These appear to be the first counterexamples that are not directly constructed by means of spectral gaps. Finally, we show that vertex-transitive asymptotic expanders are actually expanders. In particular, this gives a $C^*$-algebraic characterisation of expanders for vertex-transitive graphs.

math.MG↗

arXiv2018

Box spaces of the free group that neither contain expanders nor embed into a Hilbert space

We construct box spaces of a free group that do not coarsely embed into a Hilbert space, but do not contain coarsely embedded expanders. We do this by considering two sequences of subgroups of the free group: one which gives rise to a box space which forms an expander, and another which gives rise to a box space that can be coarsely embedded into a Hilbert space. We then take certain intersections of these subgroups, and prove that the corresponding box space contains generalized expanders. We show that there are no coarsely embedded expanders in the box space corresponding to our chosen sequence by proving that a box space that covers another box space of the same group that is coarsely embeddable into a Hilbert space cannot contain coarsely embedded expanders.

math.GR↗

arXiv2017

Coarse fundamental groups and box spaces

We use a coarse version of the fundamental group first introduced by Barcelo, Kramer, Laubenbacher and Weaver to show that box spaces of finitely presented groups detect the normal subgroups used to construct the box space, up to isomorphism. As a consequence we have that two finitely presented groups admit coarsely equivalent box spaces if and only if they are commensurable via normal subgroups. We also provide an example of two filtrations $(N_i)$ and $(M_i)$ of a free group $F$ such that $M_i>N_i$ for all $i$ with $[M_i:N_i]$ uniformly bounded, but with $\Box_{(N_i)}F$ not coarsely equivalent to $\Box_{(M_i)}F$. Finally, we give some applications of the main theorem for rank gradient and the first $\ell^2$ Betti number, and show that the main theorem can be used to construct infinitely many coarse equivalence classes of box spaces with various properties.

math.GR↗

arXiv2015

Expanders and box spaces

We consider box spaces of finitely generated, residually finite groups $G$, and try to distinguish them up to coarse equivalence. We show that, for $n\geq 2$, the group $SL_n(\mathbb{Z})$ has a continuum of box spaces which are pairwise non-coarsely equivalent expanders. Moreover, varying the integer $n\geq 3$, expanders given as box spaces of $SL_n(\mathbb{Z})$ are pairwise inequivalent; similarly, varying the prime $p$, expanders given as box spaces of $SL_2(\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{p}])$ are pairwise inequivalent. A strong form of non-expansion for a box space is the existence of $α\in]0,1]$ such that the diameter of each component $X_n$ satisfies $diam(X_n)=Ω(|X_n|^α)$. By a result of Breuillard and Tointon, the existence of such a box space implies that $G$ virtually maps onto $\mathbb{Z}$: we establish the converse. For the lamplighter group $(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})\wr\mathbb{Z}$ and for a semi-direct product $\mathbb{Z}^2\rtimes\mathbb{Z}$, such box spaces are explicitly constructed using specific congruence subgroups. We finally introduce the full box space of $G$, i.e. the coarse disjoint union of all finite quotients of $G$. We prove that the full box space of a group mapping onto the free group $\mathbb{F}_2$ is not coarsely equivalent to the full box space of an $S$-arithmetic group satisfying the Congruence Subgroup Property.

math.GR↗

arXiv2013

Embeddability of generalized wreath products and box spaces

Given two finitely generated groups that coarsely embed into a Hilbert space, it is known that their wreath product also embeds coarsely into a Hilbert space. We introduce a wreath product construction for general metric spaces X,Y,Z and derive a condition, called the (delta-polynomial) path lifting property, such that coarse embeddability of X,Y and Z implies coarse embeddability of X\wr_Z Y. We also give bounds on the compression of X\wr_Z Y in terms of delta and the compressions of X,Y and Z. Next, we investigate the stability of the property of admitting a box space which coarsely embeds into a Hilbert space under the taking of wreath products. We show that if an infinite finitely generated residually finite group H has a coarsely embeddable box space, then G\wr H has a coarsely embeddable box space if G is finitely generated abelian. This leads, in particular, to new examples of bounded geometry coarsely embeddable metric spaces without property A.

math.GR↗