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Asymptotic invariants of residually finite just infinite groups

Group Theory 2024-12-20 v1

Abstract

Recently, Eduard Schesler and the second author constructed examples of finitely generated residually finite, hereditarily just infinite groups with positive first L2L^2-Betti number. In contrast to their result, we show that a finitely generated residually-pp just infinite group has trivial first L2L^2-Betti number. Moreover, we prove that the normal homology rank gradient of a finitely generated, residually finite, just infinite group vanishes.

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@article{arxiv.2412.14765,
  title  = {Asymptotic invariants of residually finite just infinite groups},
  author = {Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain and Steffen Kionke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14765},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

to appear in a special issue of the European Journal of Mathematics dedicated to Nikolay Vavilov