Tim Austin

  1. On discontinuities of cocycles in cohomology theories for topological groups.

    Authors: Tim Austin
    Subjects: Group Theory
    Abstract

    This paper studies classes in Moore's measurable cohomology theory for
    locally compact groups and Polish modules. An elementary dimension-shifting
    argument is used to show that all such classes have representatives with
    considerable extra topological structure beyond measurability. Based on this
    idea, for certain target modules one can also construct a direct comparison map
    with a different cohomology theory for topological groups defined by Segal, and
    show that this map is an isomorphism.

  2. Sharp quantitative nonembeddability of the Heisenberg group into superreflexive Banach spaces.

    Authors: Romain Tessera, Tim Austin, Assaf Naor
    Subjects: Metric Geometry
    Abstract

    Let $\H$ denote the discrete Heisenberg group, equipped with a word metric
    $d_W$ associated to some finite symmetric generating set. We show that if
    $(X,\|\cdot\|)$ is a $p$-convex Banach space then for any Lipschitz function
    $f:\H\to X$ there exist $x,y\in \H$ with $d_W(x,y)$ arbitrarily large and
    \begin{equation}\label{eq:comp abs} \frac{\|f(x)-f(y)\|}{d_W(x,y)}\lesssim
    \left(\frac{\log\log d_W(x,y)}{\log d_W(x,y)}\right)^{1/p}. \end{equation}

  3. Continuity properties of Moore cohomology.

    Authors: Tim Austin
    Subjects: Group Theory
    Abstract

    In an important sequence of papers, Calvin Moore developed a version of group
    cohomology for locally compact groups taking into account their topology. He
    was able to re-establish most of the standard algebraic properties of group
    cohomology in the category of Polish Abelian modules for such groups, building
    initially on a bar resolution restricted to Borel cochains. However, the
    resulting cohomology groups can have rather unwieldy topological properties,
    and it remained mostly unclear whether they behave well under forming inverse
    limits of a sequence of base groups.

  4. Nonconventional ergodic averages and multiple recurrence for von Neumann dynamical systems.

    Authors: Terence Tao, Tim Austin, Tanja Eisner
    Subjects: Operator Algebras
    Abstract

    The Furstenberg recurrence theorem (or equivalently, Szemer\'edi's theorem)
    can be formulated in the language of von Neumann algebras as follows: given an
    integer $k \geq 2$, an abelian finite von Neumann algebra $(\M,\tau)$ with an
    automorphism $\alpha: \M \to \M$, and a non-negative $a \in \M$ with
    $\tau(a)>0$, one has $\liminf_{N \to \infty} \frac{1}{N} \sum_{n=1}^N \Re
    \tau(a \alpha^n (a) ... \alpha^{(k-1)n} (a)) > 0$; a subsequent result of Host
    and Kra shows that this limit exists. In particular, $\Re \tau(a \alpha^n (a)
    >...

  5. Pleasant extensions retaining algebraic structure, II.

    Authors: Tim Austin
    Subjects: Dynamical Systems
    Abstract

    This paper is the second of three in which we develop and use some general
    machinery for constructing pleasant extensions for certain nonconventional
    ergodic averages associated to probability-preserving systems.

  6. Pleasant extensions retaining algebraic structure, III.

    Authors: Tim Austin
    Subjects: Dynamical Systems
    Abstract

    This is the last of three papers (following arXiv:0905.0518 and
    arXiv:0910.0907) in which we develop and use some general machinery for
    extending probability-preserving \bbZ^d-systems so as to obtain simplified
    asymptotic behaviour for certain associated nonconventional ergodic averages.
    In this third part we will use the results of the first two to obtain an
    extension of an arbitrary probability-preserving \bbZ^2-system (X,\mu,T_1,T_2)
    in which the associated sequences of quadratic nonconventional averages
    \frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=1}^N (f

  7. Pleasant extensions retaining algebraic structure, III.

    Authors: Tim Austin
    Subjects: Dynamical Systems
    Abstract

    This is the last of three papers (following arXiv:0905.0518 and
    arXiv:0910.0907) in which we develop and use some general machinery for
    extending probability-preserving \bbZ^d-systems so as to obtain simplified
    asymptotic behaviour for certain associated nonconventional ergodic averages.
    In this third part we will use the results of the first two to obtain an
    extension of an arbitrary probability-preserving \bbZ^2-system (X,\mu,T_1,T_2)
    in which the associated sequences of quadratic nonconventional averages
    \frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=1}^N (f

  8. A counterexample to a conjecture of Atiyah.

    Authors: Tim Austin
    Subjects: Group Theory
    Abstract

    We prove that there are examples of finitely generated groups G together with
    group ring elements Q \in \bbQ G for which the von Neumann dimension
    \dim_{LG}\ker Q is irrational, so (in conjunction with other known results)
    disproving a conjecture of Atiyah.

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