String C-groups with real Schur index 2

Schur-Pair Property and the Structure of Varietal Covering Groups

2 00 6 Self - Similar Groups , Algebras and Schur

In the first part of the article we introduce C-algebras associated to self-similar groups and study their properties and relations to known algebras. The algebras are constructed as sub-algebras of the Cuntz-Pimsner algebra (and its homomorphic images) associated with the self-similarity of the group. We study such properties as nuclearity, simplicity and Morita equivalence with algebras relat...

Automorphism Groups of Schur Rings

In 1993, Muzychuk [18] showed that the rational Schur rings over a cyclic group Zn are in one-to-one correspondence with sublattices of the divisor lattice of n, or equivalently, with sublattices of the lattice of subgroups of Zn. This can easily be extended to show that for any finite group G, sublattices of the lattice of characteristic subgroups of G give rise to rational Schur rings over G ...

On Schur Multipliers of Pairs and Triples of Groups with Topological Approach

In this paper, using a relation between Schur multipliers of pairs and triples of groups, the fundamental group and homology groups of a homotopy pushout of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces, we present among other things some behaviors of Schur multipliers of pairs and triples with respect to free, amalgamated free, and direct products and also direct limits of groups with topological approach.

Asymptotic Schur Orthogonality in Hyperbolic Groups with Application to Monotony

We prove a generalization of Schur orthogonality relations for certain classes of representations of Gromov hyperbolic groups. We apply the obtained results to show that representations of non-abelian free groups associated to the Patterson-Sullivan measures corresponding to a wide class of invariant metrics on the group are monotonous in the sense introduced by Kuhn and Steger. This in particu...