scholarly journals Inner amenability for groups and central sequences in factors

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 1106-1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
IONUT CHIFAN ◽  
THOMAS SINCLAIR ◽  
BOGDAN UDREA
Keyword(s):  
Measure Space ◽  
Negative Curvature ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Discrete Groups ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Curvature Condition ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Group Measure ◽  
Central Sequences ◽  
Inner Amenability

We show that a large class of i.c.c., countable, discrete groups satisfying a weak negative curvature condition are not inner amenable. By recent work of Hull and Osin [Groups with hyperbolically embedded subgroups. Algebr. Geom. Topol.13 (2013), 2635–2665], our result recovers that mapping class groups and $\text{Out}(\mathbb{F}_{n})$ are not inner amenable. We also show that the group-measure space constructions associated to free, strongly ergodic p.m.p. actions of such groups do not have property Gamma of Murray and von Neumann [On rings of operators IV. Ann. of Math. (2) 44 (1943), 716–808].

scholarly journals A remark on fullness of some group measure space von Neumann algebras

2016 ◽  
Vol 152 (12) ◽  
pp. 2493-2502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narutaka Ozawa
Keyword(s):  
Lie Group ◽  
Measure Space ◽  
Von Neumann Algebra ◽  
Von Neumann Algebras ◽  
Free Action ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Finite Center ◽  
Group Measure ◽  
Singular Action ◽  
Amenable Subgroup

Recently Houdayer and Isono have proved, among other things, that every biexact group $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$ has the property that for any non-singular strongly ergodic essentially free action $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}\curvearrowright (X,\unicode[STIX]{x1D707})$ on a standard measure space, the group measure space von Neumann algebra $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}\ltimes L^{\infty }(X)$ is full. In this paper, we prove the same property for a wider class of groups, notably including $\text{SL}(3,\mathbb{Z})$. We also prove that for any connected simple Lie group $G$ with finite center, any lattice $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}\leqslant G$, and any closed non-amenable subgroup $H\leqslant G$, the non-singular action $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}\curvearrowright G/H$ is strongly ergodic and the von Neumann factor $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}\ltimes L^{\infty }(G/H)$ is full.

scholarly journals INNER AMENABLE GROUPOIDS AND CENTRAL SEQUENCES

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOSHIKATA KIDA ◽  
ROBIN TUCKER-DROB
Keyword(s):  
Von Neumann Algebra ◽  
Analogous Result ◽  
Amenable Group ◽  
Equivalence Relations ◽  
Full Group ◽  
Discrete Probability ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Central Sequence ◽  
Central Sequences ◽  
Inner Amenability

We introduce inner amenability for discrete probability-measure-preserving (p.m.p.) groupoids and investigate its basic properties, examples, and the connection with central sequences in the full group of the groupoid or central sequences in the von Neumann algebra associated with the groupoid. Among other things, we show that every free ergodic p.m.p. compact action of an inner amenable group gives rise to an inner amenable orbit equivalence relation. We also obtain an analogous result for compact extensions of equivalence relations that either are stable or have a nontrivial central sequence in their full group.

The Nielsen-Thurston Classification

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benson Farb ◽  
Dan Margalit
Keyword(s):  
Hyperbolic Geometry ◽  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Classification Theorem ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Fundamental Result ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Mapping Torus ◽  
Higher Genus ◽  
Manifold Theory

This chapter explains and proves the Nielsen–Thurston classification of elements of Mod(S), one of the central theorems in the study of mapping class groups. It first considers the classification of elements for the torus of Mod(T² before discussing higher-genus analogues for each of the three types of elements of Mod(T². It then states the Nielsen–Thurston classification theorem in various forms, as well as a connection to 3-manifold theory, along with Thurston's geometric classification of mapping torus. The rest of the chapter is devoted to Bers' proof of the Nielsen–Thurston classification. The collar lemma is highlighted as a new ingredient, as it is also a fundamental result in the hyperbolic geometry of surfaces.

On the Teichmüller tower of mapping class groups

2000 ◽  
Vol 2000 (521) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Hatcher ◽  
Pierre Lochak ◽  
Leila Schneps
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Class Groups

scholarly journals Weak mixing for locally compact quantum groups

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1657-1680 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMI VISELTER
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Groups ◽  
Von Neumann Algebras ◽  
Unitary Representations ◽  
Discrete Groups ◽  
Weak Mixing ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Locally Compact Quantum Groups ◽  
Compact Quantum Groups ◽  
Weakly Mixing

We generalize the notion of weakly mixing unitary representations to locally compact quantum groups, introducing suitable extensions of all standard characterizations of weak mixing to this setting. These results are used to complement the non-commutative Jacobs–de Leeuw–Glicksberg splitting theorem of Runde and the author [Ergodic theory for quantum semigroups. J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 89(3) (2014), 941–959]. Furthermore, a relation between mixing and weak mixing of state-preserving actions of discrete quantum groups and the properties of certain inclusions of von Neumann algebras, which is known for discrete groups, is demonstrated.

scholarly journals Right-angled Artin groups as normal subgroups of mapping class groups

2021 ◽  
Vol 157 (8) ◽  
pp. 1807-1852
Author(s):  
Matt Clay ◽  
Johanna Mangahas ◽  
Dan Margalit
Keyword(s):  
Mapping Class Group ◽  
Class Group ◽  
Mapping Class Groups ◽  
Braid Groups ◽  
Mapping Class ◽  
Artin Groups ◽  
Normal Subgroups ◽  
Class Groups ◽  
Right Angled Artin Groups ◽  
Proper Normal Subgroup

We construct the first examples of normal subgroups of mapping class groups that are isomorphic to non-free right-angled Artin groups. Our construction also gives normal, non-free right-angled Artin subgroups of other groups, such as braid groups and pure braid groups, as well as many subgroups of the mapping class group, such as the Torelli subgroup. Our work recovers and generalizes the seminal result of Dahmani–Guirardel–Osin, which gives free, purely pseudo-Anosov normal subgroups of mapping class groups. We give two applications of our methods: (1) we produce an explicit proper normal subgroup of the mapping class group that is not contained in any level $m$ congruence subgroup and (2) we produce an explicit example of a pseudo-Anosov mapping class with the property that all of its even powers have free normal closure and its odd powers normally generate the entire mapping class group. The technical theorem at the heart of our work is a new version of the windmill apparatus of Dahmani–Guirardel–Osin, which is tailored to the setting of group actions on the projection complexes of Bestvina–Bromberg–Fujiwara.

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