Coarsely embeddable metric spaces without Property A

We study Guoliang Yu's Property A and construct metric spaces which do not satisfy Property A but embed coarsely into the Hilbert space.     

On Asymptotic Dimension of Groups Acting on Trees

We prove the following.THEOREM. Let be the fundamental group of a finite graph of groups with finitely generated vertex groups G _v having asdim G _v n for all vertices v. Then asdim n+1.This gives the best possible estimate for the asymptotic dimension of an HNN extension and the amalgamated product.     

Rank Gradient and p-gradient of Amalgamated Free Products and HNN Extensions

We calculate the rank gradient and p-gradient of free products with amalgamation over an amenable subgroup and HNN extensions with an amenable associated subgroup. The notion of cost is used to compute the rank gradient of amalgamated free products and HNN extensions. For the p-gradient the Kurosh subgroup theorems for amalgamated free products and HNN extensions will be used.     

Some results on monotone metric spaces

We present some new results on monotone metric spaces. We prove that every bounded 1-monotone metric space in R^d${\mathbb{R}}^d$ has a finite 1-dimensional Hausdorff measure. As a consequence we obtain that each continuous bounded curve in R^d${\mathbb{R}}^d$ has a finite length if and only if it can be written as a finite sum of 1-monotone continuous bounded curves. Next we construct a continuous function f such that M   has a zero Lebesgue measure provided the graph(f|M)$\mathrm{graph}(f|M)$ is a monotone set in the plane. We finally construct a differentiable function with a monotone graph and unbounded variation.     

Asymptotic properties of groups acting on complexes

We examine asymptotic dimension and property A for groups acting on complexes. In particular, we prove that the fundamental group of a finite, developable complex of groups will have finite asymptotic dimension provided the geometric realization of the development has finite asymptotic dimension and the vertex groups are finitely generated and have finite asymptotic dimension. We also prove that property A is preserved by this construction provided the geometric realization of the development has finite asymptotic dimension and the vertex groups all have property A. These results naturally extend the corresponding results on preservation of these large-scale properties for fundamental groups of graphs of groups. We also use an example to show that the requirement that the development have finite asymptotic dimension cannot be relaxed.

     

Schreier theorem on groups which split over free abelian groups

Let be either a free product with amalgamation or an HNN group where is isomorphic to a free abelian group of finite rank. Suppose that both and have no nontrivial, finitely generated, normal subgroups of infinite indices. We show that if contains a finitely generated normal subgroup which is neither contained in nor free, then the index of in is finite. Further, as an application of this result, we show that the fundamental group of a torus sum of -manifolds and , the interiors of which admit hyperbolic structures, have no nontrivial, finitely generated, nonfree, normal subgroup of infinite index if each of and has at least one nontorus boundary.

     

A differentiable structure for metric measure spaces

The main result of this paper is the provision of conditions under which a metric measure space admits a differentiable structure. This differentiable structure gives rise to a finite-dimensional L^∞ cotangent bundle over the given metric measure space and then to a Sobolev space H^1,p over the given metric measure space, the latter which is reflexive for p>1. This extends results of Cheeger (Geom. Funct. Anal. 9 (1999) (3) 428) to a wider collection of metric measure spaces.     

A mean value theorem for metric spaces

We present a form of the Mean Value Theorem (MVT) for a continuous function f between metric spaces, connecting it with the possibility to choose the relation of f in a homeomorphic way. We also compare our formulation of the MVT with the classic one when the metric spaces are open subsets of Banach spaces. As a consequence, we derive a version of the Mean Value Propriety for measure spaces that also possesses a compatible metric structure.     

A characterization of Fuchsian groups acting on complex hyperbolic spaces

Let G ? SU(2, 1) be a non-elementary complex hyperbolic Kleinian group. If G preserves a complex line, then G is ?-Fuchsian; if G preserves a Lagrangian plane, then G is ?-Fuchsian; G is Fuchsian if G is either ?-Fuchsian or ?-Fuchsian. In this paper, we prove that if the traces of all elements in G are real, then G is Fuchsian. This is an analogous result of Theorem V.G. 18 of B. Maskit, Kleinian Groups, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988, in the setting of complex hyperbolic isometric groups. As an application of our main result, we show that G is conjugate to a subgroup of S(U(1)×U(1, 1)) or SO(2, 1) if each loxodromic element in G is hyperbolic. Moreover, we show that the converse of our main result does not hold by giving a ?-Fuchsian group.     

A duality of generalized metric spaces

We develop a duality theory for Lawvere?s generalized metric spaces that extends the Lawson duality for continuous dcpos and open filter reflecting maps: we prove that the category of relatively cocomplete and continuous [0,∞]-categories considered with open filter reflecting maps is self-dual.     

Vanishing of certain equivariant distributions on spherical spaces for quasi-split groups

We prove the vanishing of $\mathfrak{z}$-eigen distributions on a quasi-split real reductive group which change according to a non-degenerate character under the left action of the unipotent radical of the Borel subgroup, and are equivariant under the right action of a spherical subgroup.     

Some equivalent definitions of high order Sobolev spaces on stratified groups and generalizations to metric spaces

Recently, in the article [LW], the authors use the notion of polynomials in metric spaces of homogeneous type (in the sense of Coifman-Weiss) to prove a relationship between high order Poincaré inequalities and representation formulas involving fractional integrals of high order, assuming only that is a doubling measure and that geodesics exist. Motivated by this and by recent work in [H], [FHK], [KS] and [FLW] about first order Sobolev spaces in metric spaces, we define Sobolev spaces of high order in such metric spaces . We prove that several definitions are equivalent if functions of polynomial type exist. In the case of stratified groups, where polynomials do exist, we show that our spaces are equivalent to the Sobolev spaces defined by Folland and Stein in [FS]. Our results also give some alternate definitions of Sobolev spaces in the classical Euclidean case. Received: 10 February 1999 / Published online: 1 February 2002     

Atomic Properties of the Hawaiian Earring Group for HNN Extensions

In 2011, while investigating fundamental groups of wild spaces, K.Eda [7 Eda , K. ( 2011 ). Atomic property of the fundamental groups of the Hawaiian earring and wild locally path-connected spaces . Jour. Math. Soc. Japan 63 ( 3 ): 769 – 787 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] showed that the fundamental group of the Hawaiian earring (the Hawaiian earring group, in short) has the property that for any homomorphism h from it to a free product A*B, there exists a natural number N such that is contained in a conjugate subgroup to A or B. In the present article, we prove a corresponding property for certain HNN extensions and amalgamated free products. This allows us to show that some one-relator groups, including Baumslag–Solitar groups, are n-slender.     

Uniformly bounded representations and exact groups

We characterize groups with Guoliang Yu?s property A (i.e., exact groups) by the existence of a family of uniformly bounded representations which approximate the trivial representation.     

离散度量空间的相对性质A

Yu introduced Property A on discrete metric spaces. In this paper, a relative Property A for a discrete metric space X with respect to a set Y and a map ρ_(X,Y) is defined. Some characterizations for relative Property A are given. In particular, a discrete metric space with relative Property A can be coarse embedding into a Hilbert space under certain condition.     

Groups acting on tree-graded spaces and splittings of relatively hyperbolic groups

Tree-graded spaces are generalizations of R-trees. They appear as asymptotic cones of groups (when the cones have cut-points). Since many questions about endomorphisms and automorphisms of groups, solving equations over groups, studying embeddings of a group into another group, etc. lead to actions of groups on the asymptotic cones, it is natural to consider actions of groups on tree-graded spaces. We develop a theory of such actions which generalizes the well-known theory of groups acting on R-trees. As applications of our theory, we describe, in particular, relatively hyperbolic groups with infinite groups of outer automorphisms, and co-Hopfian relatively hyperbolic groups.