Elementary amenable groups are quasidiagonal

Are Unitarizable Groups Amenable?

We give a new formulation of some of our recent results on the following problem: if all uniformly bounded representations on a discrete group G are similar to unitary ones, is the group amenable? In §5, we give a new proof of Haagerup's theorem that, on non-commutative free groups, there are Herz-Schur multipliers that are not coefficients of uniformly bounded representations. We actually prov...

Non-elementary amenable subgroups of automata groups

We consider groups of automorphisms of locally finite trees, and give conditions on its subgroups that imply that they are not elementary amenable. This covers all known examples of groups that are not elementary amenable and act on the trees: groups of intermediate growths and Basilica group, by giving a more straightforward proof. Moreover, we deduce that all finitely generated branch groups ...

Recurrent Points and Discrete Points for Elementary Amenable Groups

Let fig be the Stone-Cech compactification of a group G, Aa the set of all almost periodic points in G, Ka c[U { supp eLIM(G)}] and Ra the set of all recurrent points in fiG. In this paper we will study the relationships between Ka and Ra, and between Aa and Ra. We will show that for any infinite elementary amenable group G, Aa Ra and RaKa =/= .

Lecture 9 : Elementary subexponentially amenable groups by Kate Juschenko

Amenable Groups

Throughout we let Γ be a discrete group. For f : Γ → C and each s ∈ Γ we define the left translation action by (s.f)(t) = f(s−1t). Definition 1.1. A group Γ is amenable is there exists a state μ on l∞(Γ) which is invariant under the left translation action: for all s ∈ Γ and f ∈ l∞(Γ), μ(s.f) = μ(f). Example 1.2. Finite groups are amenable: take the state which sends χ{s} to 1 |Γ| for each s ∈ ...