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Hyperlinear approximations to amenable groups come from sofic approximations

Group Theory 2024-01-12 v2

Abstract

We provide a quantitative formulation of the equivalence between hyperlinearity and soficity for amenable groups, effectively showing how every hyperlinear approximation to such a group is simulated by a suitable sofic approximation. The proof is probabilistic, using the concentration of measure in high-dimensional spheres to control the deviation of an operator's matrix coefficients from its trace. As a corollary, we obtain a result connecting stability of sofic approximations with stability of hyperlinear approximations.

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@article{arxiv.2311.09202,
  title  = {Hyperlinear approximations to amenable groups come from sofic approximations},
  author = {Peter Burton and Maksym Chaudkhari and Kate Juschenko and Kyrylo Muliarchyk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09202},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Updated to emphasize the effective nature of the results