Amenable Covers, Volume and L-betti Numbers of Aspherical Manifolds
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We provide a proof for an inequality between volume and LBetti numbers of aspherical manifolds for which Gromov outlined a strategy based on general ideas of Connes. The implementation of that strategy involves measured equivalence relations, Gaboriau’s theory of L-Betti numbers of R-simplicial complexes, and other themes of measurable group theory. Further, we prove new vanishing theorems for L-Betti numbers that generalize a classical result of Cheeger and Gromov. As one of the corollaries, we obtain a gap theorem which implies vanishing of L-Betti numbers of an aspherical manifold when its minimal volume is sufficiently small.
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