Nontrivial pseudocharacters on groups with one defining relation and nontrivial centre

The problem concerning existence conditions for nontrivial pseudocharacters on one-relator groups with nontrivial centre is completely solved. It is proved that a nontrivial pseudocharacter exists on a group of this type if and only if the group is nonamenable. A pseudocharacter is a real function o...

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Published in:Sbornik. Mathematics 2017-01, Vol.208 (1), p.75-89
Main Author: Kagan, D. Z.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
amenability
bounded cohomology
Functions (mathematics)
Homology
Mathematical analysis
nontrivial pseudocharacters
one-relator groups
Subgroups
width of verbal subgroups
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Summary:The problem concerning existence conditions for nontrivial pseudocharacters on one-relator groups with nontrivial centre is completely solved. It is proved that a nontrivial pseudocharacter exists on a group of this type if and only if the group is nonamenable. A pseudocharacter is a real function on a group for which the set is bounded and for all and . The existence of pseudocharacters is related to many important characteristics and properties of groups, such as the cohomology groups and the width of verbal subgroups. From our results for pseudocharacters we obtain corollaries concerning the width of verbal subgroups and the second bounded cohomology group for the one-relator groups with nontrivial centre. Bibliography: 21 titles.
ISSN:1064-5616
1468-4802
DOI:10.1070/SM8527