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Henrik Densing Petersen

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arXiv2019

Polynomial Cohomology and Polynomial Maps on Nilpotent Groups

We introduce a refined version of group cohomology and relate it to the space of polynomials on the group in question. We show that the polynomial cohomology with trivial coefficients admits a description in terms of ordinary cohomology with polynomial coefficients, and that the degree one polynomial cohomology with trivial coefficients admits a description directly in terms of polynomials. Lastly, we give a complete description of the polynomials on a connected, simply connected nilpotent Lie group by showing that these are exactly the maps that pull back to classical polynomials via the exponential map.

math.GR↗
arXiv2013

L^2-Betti numbers and Plancherel measure

We compute $L^2$-Betti numbers of postliminal, locally compact, unimodular groups in terms of ordinary dimensions of reduced cohomology with coefficients in irreducible unitary representations and the Plancherel measure. This allows us to compute the $L^2$-Betti numbers for semi-simple Lie groups with finite center, simple algebraic groups over local fields, and automorphism groups of locally finite trees acting transitively on the boundary.

math.GR↗
arXiv2013

A groupoid approach to Lück's amenability conjecture

We prove that amenability of a discrete group is equivalent to dimension flatness of certain ring inclusions naturally associated with measure preserving actions of the group. This provides a group-measure space theoretic solution to a conjecture of Lück stating that amenability of a group is characterized by dimension flatness of the inclusion of its complex group algebra into the associated von Neumann algebra.

math.GR↗
arXiv2013

L^2-Betti numbers of locally compact groups and their cross section equivalence relations

We prove that the L^2-Betti numbers of a unimodular locally compact group G coincide, up to a natural scaling constant, with the L^2-Betti numbers of the countable equivalence relation induced on a cross section of any essentially free ergodic probability measure preserving action of G. As a consequence, we obtain that the reduced and un-reduced L^2-Betti numbers of G agree and that the L^2-Betti numbers of a lattice Gamma in G equal those of G up to scaling by the covolume of Gamma in G. We also deduce several vanishing results, including the vanishing of the reduced L^2-cohomology for amenable locally compact groups.

math.GR↗
arXiv2013

L^2-Betti Numbers of Locally Compact Groups

We introduce a notion of $L^2$-Betti numbers for locally compact, second countable, unimodular groups. We study the relation to the standard notion of $L^2$-Betti numbers of countable discrete groups for lattices. In this way, several new computations are obtained for countable groups, including lattices in algebraic groups over local fields, and Kac-Moody lattices. We also extend the vanishing of reduced $L^2$-cohomology for countable amenable groups, a well known theorem due to Cheeger and Gromov, to cover all amenable, second countable, unimodular locally compact groups.

math.GR↗
arXiv2012

An obstruction to $\ell^p$-dimension

For any group $G$ containing an infinite elementary amenable subgroup, and any $2<p<\infty$, there exists closed invariant subspaces $E_i\nearrow \ell^pG$ and $F\neq 0$ such that $E_i\cap F = 0$ for all $i$. This is an obstacle to $\ell^p$-dimension and gives a negative answer to a question of Gaboriau.

math.GR↗
arXiv2007

Composability in a certain family of entropies

It is shown that the Tsallis entropies are the only entropies of the form $H(P)=-\sum_i f(p_i)$, with suitable assumptions on $f$, satisfying the condition of composability.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗