Lamplighter groups and von Neumann's continuous regular rings
Rings and Algebras
2014-02-25 v1 Group Theory
Abstract
Let be a discrete group. Following Linnell and Schick one can define a continuous ring associated with . They proved that if the Atiyah Conjecture holds for a torsion-free group , then is a skew field. Also, if has torsion and the Strong Atiyah Conjecture holds for , then is a matrix ring over a skew field. The simplest example when the Strong Atiyah Conjecture fails is the lamplighter group . It is known that does not even have a classical ring of quotients. Our main result is that if is amenable, then is isomorphic to a continuous ring constructed by John von Neumann in the .
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@article{arxiv.1402.5499,
title = {Lamplighter groups and von Neumann's continuous regular rings},
author = {Gabor Elek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.5499},
year = {2014}
}
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16 pages