On Bredon homology of elementary amenable groups

We show that for elementary amenable groups the Hirsch length is equal to the Bredon homological dimension. This also implies that countable elementary amenable groups admit a finite-dimensional model for of dimension less than or equal to the Hirsch length plus one. Some remarks on groups of type are also made.

     

Locally compact (2, 2)‐transformation groups

We determine all locally compact imprimitive transformation groups acting sharply 2‐transitively on a non‐totally disconnected quotient space of blocks inducing on any block a sharply 2‐transitive group and satisfying the following condition: if Δ₁, Δ₂ are two distinct blocks and P_i, Q_i ∈ Δ_i (i = 1, 2), then there is just one element in the inertia subgroup which maps P_i onto Q_i. These groups are natural generalizations of the group of affine mappings of the line over the algebra of dual numbers over the field of real or complex numbers or over the skew‐field of quaternions. For imprimitive locally compact groups, our results correspond to the classical results of Kalscheuer for primitive locally compact groups (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

An ω‐categorical structure with amenable automorphism group

We analyse ω‐categorical precompact expansions of particular ω‐categorical structures from the viewpoint of amenability of their automorphism groups.     

On amenable and compact groups

In the sequel ofB. E. Johnson's work on amenable Banach algebras we characterize amenable and compact groups.     

On the L p -distortion of finite quotients of amenable groups

We study the L ^p -distortion of finite quotients of amenable groups. In particular, for every ${2\leq p < \infty}$ , we prove that the ? ^p -distortions of the groups ${C_2\wr C_n}$ and ${C_{2^n}\rtimes C_n}$ are in ${\Theta((\log n)^{1/p}),}$ and that the ? ^p -distortion of ${C_n^2 \rtimes_A \mathbf{Z}}$ , where A is the matrix ${{\left({\small\begin{array}{cc}2 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 \end{array}} \right)}}$ is in ${\Theta((\log \log n)^{1/p}).}$      

Alternating groups and flag‐transitive 2‐(v,k, 4) symmetric designs

In this article, we study the classification of flag‐transitive, point‐primitive 2‐ (v, k, 4) symmetric designs. We prove that if the socle of the automorphism group G of a flag‐transitive, point‐primitive nontrivial 2‐ (v, k, 4) symmetric design ?? is an alternating group A_n for n≥5, then (v, k) = (15, 8) and ?? is one of the following: (i) The points of ?? are those of the projective space PG(3, 2) and the blocks are the complements of the planes of PG(3, 2), G = A₇ or A₈, and the stabilizer G_x of a point x of ?? is L₃(2) or AGL₃(2), respectively. (ii) The points of ?? are the edges of the complete graph K₆ and the blocks are the complete bipartite subgraphs K_{2, 4} of K₆, G = A₆ or S₆, and G_x = S₄ or S₄ × Z₂, respectively. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs 19:475‐483, 2011     

On Cayley digraphs on nonisomorphic 2‐groups

A necessary and sufficient condition is given for two Cayley digraphs X₁ = Cay(G₁, S₁) and X₂ = Cay(G₂, S₂) to be isomorphic, where the groups G_i are nonisomorphic abelian 2‐groups, and the digraphs X_i have a regular cyclic group of automorphisms. Our result extends that of Morris [J Graph Theory 3 (1999), 345–362] concerning p‐groups G_i, where p is an odd prime. Copyright © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory     

Ramsey-Milman phenomenon,Urysohn metric spaces,and extremely amenable groups

In this paper we further study links between concentration of measure in topological transformation groups, existence of fixed points, and Ramsey-type theorems for metric spaces. We prove that whenever the group Iso of isometries of Urysohn’s universal complete separable metric space , equipped with the compact-open topology, acts upon an arbitrary compact space, it has a fixed point. The same is true if is replaced with any generalized Urysohn metric spaceU that is sufficiently homogeneous. Modulo a recent theorem by Uspenskij that every topological group embeds into a topological group of the form Iso(U), our result implies that every topological group embeds into an extremely amenable group (one admitting an invariant multiplicative mean on bounded right uniformly continuous functions). By way of the proof, we show that every topological group is approximated by finite groups in a certain weak sense. Our technique also results in a new proof of the extreme amenability (fixed point on compacta property) for infinite orthogonal groups. Going in the opposite direction, we deduce some Ramsey-type theorems for metric subspaces of Hilbert spaces and for spherical metric spaces from existing results on extreme amenability of infinite unitary groups and groups of isometries of Hilbert spaces.     

Subgroups and homology of extensions of centralizers of pro‐p groups

We study the growth of , where U is an open subgroup of and is a special class of pro‐p groups defined in 7 . Furthermore for non‐abelian we prove the core property: for pro‐p subgroups such that H is finitely generated and N is non‐trivial normal in G the index is always finite.     

Partial difference sets and amorphic Cayley schemes in non‐abelian 2‐groups

In this paper, we consider regular automorphism groups of graphs in the RT2 family and the Davis‐Xiang family and amorphic abelian Cayley schemes from these graphs. We derive general results on the existence of non‐abelian regular automorphism groups from abelian regular automorphism groups and apply them to the RT2 family and Davis‐Xiang family and their amorphic abelian Cayley schemes to produce amorphic non‐abelian Cayley schemes.     

L2‐estimates for the DG IIPG‐0 scheme

We discuss the optimality in L² of a variant of the Incomplete Discontinuous Galerkin Interior Penalty method (IIPG) for second order linear elliptic problems. We prove optimal estimate, in two and three dimensions, for the lowest order case under suitable regularity assumptions on the data and on the mesh. We also provide numerical evidence, in one dimension, of the necessity of the regularity assumptions. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 2012     

Complexity and T ‐invariant of Abelian and Milnor groups,and complexity of 3‐manifolds

We investigate the notion of complexity for finitely presented groups and the related notion of complexity for three‐dimensional manifolds. We give two‐sided estimates on the complexity of all the Milnor groups (the finite groups with free action on S³), as well as for all finite Abelian groups. The ideas developed in the process also allow to construct two‐sided bounds for the values of the so‐called T ‐invariant (introduced by Delzant) for the above groups, and to estimate from below the value of T ‐invariant for an arbitrary finitely presented group. Using the results of this paper and of previous ones, we then describe an infinite collection of Seifert threemanifolds for which we can asymptotically determine the complexity in an exact fashion up to linear functions. We also provide similar estimates for the complexity of several infinite families of Milnor groups. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Local indicability in ordered groups: Braids and elementary amenable groups

Groups which are locally indicable are also right-orderable, but not conversely. This paper considers a characterization of local indicability in right-ordered groups, the key concept being a property of right-ordered groups due to Conrad. Our methods answer a question regarding the Artin braid groups which are known to be right-orderable. The subgroups of pure braids enjoy an ordering which is invariant under multiplication on both sides, and it has been asked whether such an ordering of could extend to a right-invariant ordering of . We answer this in the negative. We also give another proof of a recent result of Linnell that for elementary amenable groups, the concepts of right-orderability and local indicability coincide.

     

Averaging sequences and abelian rank in amenable groups

We investigate the connection between the abelian rank of a countable amenable group and the existence of good averaging sequences (e.g., for the ergodic theorem). We show that if G is a group with finite abelian rank r(G), then 2^r(G) is a lower bound on the constant associated to a Tempel’man sequence, and if G is abelain there is a Tempel’man sequence in G with this constant. On the other hand, infinite rank precludes the existence of Tempel’man sequences and forces all tempered sequences to grow super-exponentially.     

Roughness and approximation of quasi-representations of amenable groups

Sufficient conditions are obrained for a quasi-representation (not necessarily bounded) of an amenable group (topological in general) to be a bounded perturbation of an ordinary representation. In particular, it is shown that an arbitrary (not necessarily bounded) finite-dimensional quasi-representation of an amenable topological group is a bounded perturbation of an ordinary representation. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 65, No. 6, pp. 908–920, June, 1999.     

Fundamental groups,homology equivalences and one-sided h-cobordisms

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for the fundamental group homomorphism of a map between CW-complexes(manifolds) to induce partial homology equivalences. As applications, we obtain characterizations of fundamental groups of homology spheres and Moore manifolds. Moreover, a classification of one-sided h-cobordism of manifolds up to diffeomorphisms is obtained, based on Quillen's plus construction with Whitehead torsions.     

Diagram groups and directed 2-complexes: Homotopy and homology

We show that diagram groups can be viewed as fundamental groups of spaces of positive paths on directed 2-complexes (these spaces of paths turn out to be classifying spaces). Thus diagram groups are analogs of second homotopy groups, although diagram groups are as a rule non-Abelian. Part of the paper is a review of the previous results from this point of view. In particular, we show that the so-called rigidity of the R. Thompson's group F and some other groups is similar to the flat torus theorem. We find several finitely presented diagram groups (even of type F_∞) each of which contains all countable diagram groups. We show how to compute minimal presentations and homology groups of a large class of diagram groups. We show that the Poincaré series of these groups are rational functions. We prove that all integer homology groups of all diagram groups are free Abelian.     

Inner amenable groups and the inducedC *-algebra properties

A discrete group can generate aC ^*-algebra, denoted byC ^*(G), by considering the so called conjugation regular representation of the groupG. Based on this treatment, the inner amenability ofG shall be characterized by the existence of the states onC ^* (G) satisfying some certain conditions.