Groups with the Haagerup Property: Gromov's A-T-Menability

by Pierre Julg, Michael Cowling, Paul Jolissaint, et al.

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Basic definitions.- 1.1.1 The Haagerup property, or a-T-menability.- 1.1.2 Kazhdan's property (T).- 1.2 Examples.- 1.2.1 Compact groups.- 1.2.2 SO(n, 1) and SU(n, 1).- 1.2.3 Groups acting properly on trees.- 1.2.4 Groups acting properly on R-trees.- 1.2.5 Coxeter groups.- 1.2.6 Amenable groups.- 1.2.7 Groups acting on spaces with walls.- 1.3 What is the Haagerup property good for?.- 1.3.1 Harmonic analysis: weak amenability.-...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034809050
• ISBN13: 9783034809054
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"