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Poincar\'e profiles of groups and spaces

Group Theory 2020-11-09 v3 Geometric Topology Metric Geometry

Abstract

We introduce a spectrum of monotone coarse invariants for metric measure spaces called Poincar\'{e} profiles. The two extremes of this spectrum determine the growth of the space, and the separation profile as defined by Benjamini--Schramm--Tim\'{a}r. In this paper we focus on properties of the Poincar\'{e} profiles of groups with polynomial growth, and of hyperbolic spaces, where we deduce a connection between these profiles and conformal dimension. As applications, we use these invariants to show the non-existence of coarse embeddings in a variety of examples.

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@article{arxiv.1707.02151,
  title  = {Poincar\'e profiles of groups and spaces},
  author = {David Hume and John M. Mackay and Romain Tessera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.02151},
  year   = {2020}
}

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55 pages. To appear in Revista Matem\'atica Iberoamericana

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