Amenability and vanishing of L2-Betti numbers: An operator algebraic approach |
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Authors: | Vadim Alekseev David Kyed |
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Affiliation: | 1. Mathematisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Bunsenstraße 3-5, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany;2. Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium |
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Abstract: | We introduce a Følner condition for dense subalgebras in finite von Neumann algebras and prove that it implies dimension flatness of the inclusion in question. It is furthermore proved that the Følner condition naturally generalizes the existing notions of amenability and that the ambient von Neumann algebra of a Følner algebra is automatically injective. As an application, we show how our techniques unify previously known results concerning vanishing of -Betti numbers for amenable groups, quantum groups and groupoids and moreover provide a large class of new examples of algebras with vanishing -Betti numbers. |
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