English

Relative expanders

Group Theory 2016-05-04 v3 Functional Analysis Metric Geometry

Abstract

We exhibit a finitely generated group GG and a sequence of finite index normal subgroups NnGN_n\trianglelefteq G such that for every finite generating subset SGS\subseteq G, the sequence of finite Cayley graphs (G/Nn,S)(G/N_n, S) does not coarsely embed into any LpL^p-space for 1p<1\leqslant p<\infty (moreover, into any uniformly curved Banach space), and yet admits no weakly embedded expander. The reason why our examples do not coarsely embed is a new phenomenon called relative expansion, which we define in terms of Poincar\'e inequalities.

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@article{arxiv.1402.1481,
  title  = {Relative expanders},
  author = {Goulnara Arzhantseva and Romain Tessera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1481},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

24 pages, new title, Theorem 1.3 is new, more details in proofs of Lemma 2.5 and Theorem 7.3, final revised version

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