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Weakly amenable groups

Group Theory 2016-09-14 v1

Abstract

In this paper, a group is called weakly amenable if its left regular representation is not uniformly isolated from the trivial representation. First examples of finitely generated non-amenable weakly amenable groups are constructed.

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@article{arxiv.1609.03634,
  title  = {Weakly amenable groups},
  author = {D. Osin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03634},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

This is an old paper published in 2002. It was not posted to arXiv at that time. I am now posting some of my old papers in order to make them more accessible