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Infinitely presented small cancellation groups have the Haagerup property

Group Theory 2015-01-12 v4 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We prove the Haagerup property (= Gromov's a-T-menability) for finitely generated groups defined by infinite presentations satisfying the C'(1/6)-small cancellation condition. We deduce that these groups are coarsely embeddable into a Hilbert space and that the strong Baum-Connes conjecture holds for them. The result is a first non-trivial advancement in understanding groups with such properties among infinitely presented non-amenable direct limits of hyperbolic groups. The proof uses the structure of a space with walls introduced by Wise. As the main step we show that C'(1/6)-complexes satisfy the linear separation property.

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@article{arxiv.1212.4866,
  title  = {Infinitely presented small cancellation groups have the Haagerup property},
  author = {Goulnara Arzhantseva and Damian Osajda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.4866},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

16 pages, minor modifications to v3

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