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Free Lamplighter Groups and a Question of Atiyah

Group Theory 2014-08-14 v2 Combinatorics Operator Algebras

Abstract

We compute the von Neumann dimensions of the kernels of adjacency operators on free lamplighter groups and show that they are irrational, thus providing an elementary constructive answer to a question of Atiyah.

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@article{arxiv.1005.2347,
  title  = {Free Lamplighter Groups and a Question of Atiyah},
  author = {Franz Lehner and Stephan Wagner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2347},
  year   = {2014}
}

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AMSLaTeX, 10 pages, to appear in Amer J Math