Coarse non-amenability and coarse embeddings
We construct the first example of a coarsely non-amenable (= without Guoliang Yu's property A) metric space with bounded geometry which coarsely embeds into a Hilbert space.
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Goulnara Arzhantseva
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Coarse non-amenability and covers with small eigenvalues
Given a closed Riemannian manifold M and a (virtual) epimorphism from the fundamental group of M onto a free group of rank 2, we construct a tower of finite sheeted regular covers {M_n}_{n=0}^{\infty} of M such that the first non-zero eigenvalues λ_1(M_n) of the Laplacian converge to zero as n tends to infinity. This is the first example of such a tower which is not obtainable up to uniform quasi-isometry (or even up to uniform coarse equivalence) by the previously known methods where the fundamental group of M is supposed to surject onto an amenable group.
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Compression functions of uniform embeddings of groups into Hilbert and Banach spaces
We construct finitely generated groups with arbitrary prescribed Hilbert space compression αfrom the interval [0,1]. For a large class of Banach spaces E (including all uniformly convex Banach spaces), the E-compression of these groups coincides with their Hilbert space compression. Moreover, the groups that we construct have asymptotic dimension at most 3, hence they are exact. In particular, the first examples of groups that are uniformly embeddable into a Hilbert space (respectively, exact, of finite asymptotic dimension) with Hilbert space compression 0 are given. These groups are also the first examples of groups with uniformly convex Banach space compression 0.
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Construction of elements in the closure of Grigorchuk group
We describe constraints that need to be satisfied ``near the top'' of the portraits of the elements in Grigorchuk group. These constraints, if satisfied by the portraits of all sections of some binary tree automorphism, guarantee that this automotphism belongs to the closure of Grigorchuk group in the pro-finite group of binary tree automorphisms. The constraints may be viewed as an effective version of a more conceptual description given earlier by Grigorchuk.
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The true prosoluble completion of a group: examples and open problems
The true prosoluble completion $P\Cal S (Γ)$ of a group $Γ$ is the inverse limit of the projective system of soluble quotients of $Γ$. Our purpose is to describe examples and to point out some natural open problems. We discuss a question of Grothendieck for profinite completions and its analogue for true prosoluble and true pronilpotent completions. 1. Introduction. 2. Completion with respect to a directed set of normal subgroups. 3. Universal property. 4. Examples of directed sets of normal subgroups. 5. True prosoluble completions. 6. Examples. 7. On the true prosoluble and the true pronilpotent analogues of Grothendieck's problem.
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Metrics on diagram groups and uniform embeddings in a Hilbert space
We give first examples of finitely generated groups having an intermediate, with values in (0,1), Hilbert space compression (which is a numerical parameter measuring the distortion required to embed a metric space into Hilbert space). These groups include certain diagram groups. In particular, we show that the Hilbert space compression of Richard Thompson's group $F$ is equal to 1/2, the Hilbert space compression of the restricted wreath product $Z\wr Z$ is between 1/2 and 3/4, and the Hilbert space compression of $Z\wr (Z\wr Z)$ is between 0 and 1/2. In general, we find a relationship between the growth of $H$ and the Hilbert space compression of $Z\wr H$.
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Growth rates of amenable groups
Let $F_m$ be a free group with $m$ generators and let $R$ be its normal subgroup such that $F_m/R$ projects onto $\zz$. We give a lower bound for the growth rate of the group $F_m/R'$ (where $R'$ is the derived subgroup of $R$) in terms of the length $ρ=ρ(R)$ of the shortest nontrivial relation in $R$. It follows that the growth rate of $F_m/R'$ approaches $2m-1$ as $ρ$ approaches infinity. This implies that the growth rate of an $m$-generated amenable group can be arbitrarily close to the maximum value $2m-1$. This answers an open question by P. de la Harpe. In fact we prove that such groups can be found already in the class of abelian-by-nilpotent groups as well as in the class of finite extensions of metabelian groups.
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