Characters of diagonal products and Hilbert-Schmidt stability
Group Theory
2025-07-11 v2
Abstract
We initiate a quantitative study of Hilbert-Schmidt stability for infinitely presented groups through the novel notion of stability radius growth. We exhibit an uncountable family of Hilbert-Schmidt stable amenable groups with arbitrarily large such growth. In particular, this answers a question of Lubotzky. Our approach is based on the character-theoretic stability criterion of Hadwin and Shulman. We classify the characters of alternating and elementary enrichments as well as diagonal products, including the classical family of B.H. Neumann groups.
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@article{arxiv.2407.11608,
title = {Characters of diagonal products and Hilbert-Schmidt stability},
author = {Alon Dogon and Arie Levit and Itamar Vigdorovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11608},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
42 pages; includes a table of contents; few minor corrections; accepted version to appear in the Transactions of the AMS