English

Measure expanding actions, expanders and warped cones

Geometric Topology 2021-01-13 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We define a way of approximating actions on measure spaces using finite graphs; we then show that in quite general settings these graphs form a family of expanders if and only if the action is expanding in measure. This provides a somewhat unified approach to construct expanders. We also show that the graphs we obtain are uniformly quasi-isometric to the level sets of warped cones. This way we can also prove non-embeddability results for the latter and restate an old conjecture of Gamburd-Jakobson-Sarnak.

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@article{arxiv.1610.05837,
  title  = {Measure expanding actions, expanders and warped cones},
  author = {Federico Vigolo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.05837},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

33 pages, made a number of improvements and corrections throughout. To appear in Transactions of the AMS

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