Uniform non-amenability
Uniform non-amenability
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DOI:
10.1016/j.aim.2004.10.013
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发表时间:
2005
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E. Ventura
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作者:
G. Arzhantseva;J. Burillo;M. Lustig;Lawrence Reeves;H. Short;E. Ventura
For any finitely generated group G an invariant FølG⩾0 is introduced which measures the “amount of non-amenability” of G. If G is amenable, then FølG=0. If FølG>0, we call G uniformly non-amenable. We study the basic properties of this invariant; for example, its behaviour when passing to subgroups and quotients of G. We prove that the following classes of groups are uniformly non-amenable: non-abelian free groups, non-elementary word-hyperbolic groups, large groups, free Burnside groups of large enough odd exponent, and groups acting acylindrically on a tree. Uniform non-amenability implies uniform exponential growth. We also exhibit a family of non-amenable groups (in particular including all non-solvable Baumslag–Solitar groups) which are not uniformly non-amenable, that is, they satisfy FølG=0. Finally, we derive a relation between our uniform Følner constant and the uniform Kazhdan constant with respect to the left regular representation of G.