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Kazhdan quotients of Golod-Shafarevich groups

Group Theory 2011-07-25 v2

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to prove that every Golod-Shafarevich group has an infinite quotient with Kazhdan's property (T)(T). In particular, this gives an affirmative answer to the well-known question about non-amenability of Golod-Shafarevich groups.

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@article{arxiv.0908.3734,
  title  = {Kazhdan quotients of Golod-Shafarevich groups},
  author = {Mikhail Ershov and Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3734},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

38 pages, final preprint version (slightly different from the published version)