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CAT(0) cube complexes and inner amenability

Authors :
Duchesne, Bruno
Tucker-Drob, Robin
Wesolek, Phillip
Source :
Groups Geom. Dyn. 15 (2021), 371-411
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

We here consider inner amenability from a geometric and group theoretical perspective. We prove that for every non-elementary action of a group $G$ on a finite dimensional irreducible CAT(0) cube complex, there is a nonempty $G$-invariant closed convex subset such that every conjugation invariant mean on $G$ gives full measure to the stabilizer of each point of this subset. Specializing our result to trees leads to a complete characterization of inner amenability for HNN-extensions and amalgamated free products. One novelty of the proof is that it makes use of the existence of certain idempotent conjugation-invariant means on $G$. We additionally obtain a complete characterization of inner amenability for permutational wreath product groups. One of the main ingredients used for this is a general lemma which we call the location lemma, which allows us to "locate" conjugation invariant means on a group $G$ relative to a given normal subgroup $N$ of $G$. We give several further applications of the location lemma beyond the aforementioned characterization of inner amenable wreath products.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Groups Geom. Dyn. 15 (2021), 371-411
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1903.01596
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.4171/GGD/601