Let A be a unital, commutative and finitely generated ring. We prove that if n ≥ 4, then the group G = ELn(A) has a fixed point property for affine isometric actions on B. Here B stands for any L space or any Banach space isomorphic to a Hilbert space. We also verify that the comparison map Ψ : H b (G,B) → H(G,B) from bounded to ordinary cohomology is injective, where G and B are as in above. F...

An element a of a lattice cups to an element b > a if there is a c < b such that a∪c = b. An element of a lattice has the cupping property if it cups to every element above it. We prove that there are non-zero honest elementary degrees that do not have the cupping property, which answers a question of Kristiansen, Schlage-Puchta, and Weiermann [17]. In fact, we show that if b is a sufficiently ...

Let A be a unital, commutative and finitely generated ring. We prove that if n ≥ 4, then the group G = ELn(A) has a fixed point property for affine isometric actions on B. Here B stands for any L space or any Banach space isomorphic to a Hilbert space. We also verify that the comparison map Ψ : H b (G,B) → H(G,B) from bounded to ordinary cohomology is injective, where G and B are as in above. F...

In this paper, we prove that for a unital commutative and finitely generated ring A, the group G = ELn(A) has a fixed point property for affine isometric actions on B if n ≥ 4. Here B stands for any L space or any Banach space isomorphic to a Hilbert space. We also verify that the comparison map Ψ : H b (G,B) → H (G,B) from bounded to usual cohomology is injective, where G and B are same as in ...

We prove that the notion of rigidity (or relative property (T)) for inclusions of finite von Neumann algebras defined in [Po1] is equivalent to a weaker property, in which no “continuity constants” are required. The notion of relative property (T) (or rigidity) for inclusions of finite von Neumann algebras with countable decomposable center was introduced in ([P1]) by requiring that one of the ...

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