Hyperfiniteness or amenability of measurable equivalence relations and group actions has been studied for almost fifty years. Recently, unexpected applications of hyperfiniteness were found in computer science in the context of testability of graph propert ...
A simple characterisation of topological amenability in terms of bounded cohomology is proved, following Johnson's formulation of amenability. The connection to injective Banach modules is established. ...
J.Dixmier asked in 1950 whether every non-amenable group admits uniformly bounded representations that cannot be unitarised. We provide such representations upon passing to extensions by abelian groups. This gives a new characterisation of amenability. Fur ...
As Avez showed (in 1970), the fundamental group of a compact Riemannian manifold of nonpositive sectional curvature has exponential growth if and only if it is not flat. After several generalizations from Gromov, Zimmer, Anderson, Burger and Shroeder, the ...
Let G be a locally compact group and H a closed amenable subgroup of G. We prove that every element in A(p)(H) with compact support can be extended to an element of A(p)(G) of which we control the norm and support. The result is new even for the Fourier al ...
Let X = {X(t); t ∈ RN} be a (N,d) fractional Brownian motion in Rd of index H ∈ (0,1). We study the local time of X for all temporal dimensions N and spatial dimensions d for which local time exist. We obtain two main results : R1. If we denote by Lx(I) th ...