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Francesca Diana

Publications and source records attributed to Francesca Diana.

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arXiv2016

Eilenberg swindles and higher large scale homology of products of trees

We show that uniformly finite homology of products of $n$ trees vanishes in all degrees except degree $n$, where it is infinite dimensional. Our method is geometric and applies to several large scale homology theories, including almost equivariant homology and controlled coarse homology. As an application we determine group homology with $\ell_{\infty}$-coefficients of lattices in products of trees. We also show a characterization of amenability in terms of 1-homology and construct aperiodic tilings using higher homology.

math.GT↗

arXiv2015

The $\ell^\infty$-semi-norm on uniformly finite homology

Uniformly finite homology is a coarse homology theory, defined via chains that satisfy a uniform boundedness condition. By construction, uniformly finite homology carries a canonical $\ell^\infty$-semi-norm. We show that, for uniformly discrete spaces of bounded geometry, this semi-norm on uniformly finite homology in degree 0 with integral coefficients allows for a new formulation of Whyte's rigidity result. In contrast, we prove that this semi-norm is trivial on uniformly finite homology in higher degrees with real coefficients.

math.MG↗

arXiv2013

Uniformly finite homology and amenable groups

Uniformly finite homology is a coarse invariant for metric spaces; in particular, it is a quasi-isometry invariant for finitely generated groups. In this article, we study uniformly finite homology of finitely generated amenable groups and prove that it is infinite dimensional in many cases. The main idea is to use different transfer maps to distinguish between classes in uniformly finite homology. Furthermore we show that there are infinitely many classes in degree zero that cannot be detected by means.

math.GR↗