Decomposition complexity for metric spaces was recently introduced by
Guentner, Tessera, and Yu as a natural generalization of asymptotic dimension.
We prove a vanishing result for the continuously controlled algebraic K-theory
of bounded geometry metric spaces with finite decomposition complexity. This
leads to a proof of the integral K-theoretic Novikov conjecture, regarding
split injectivity of the K-theoretic assembly map, for groups with finite
decomposition complexity and finite CW models for their classifying spaces.
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}
We embed the solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups in finitely presented
metabelian groups with quadratic Dehn function.
In a previous note, the author proved that the algebra of Schur operators on
l^2 is not inverse-closed. When l^2=l^2(X) where X is a metric space, we can
consider elements of the Schur algebra with certain decay at infinity. For
instance if X has the doubling property, then Q. Sun has proved that the
weighted Schur algebra for a strictly polynomial weight is inverse-closed.
Here, we prove a result dealing with left-invertibility.
Let A be a locally compact abelian group, and H a locally compact group
acting on A. Let G=HA be the semidirect product. We prove that the pair (G,A)
has Kazhdan's Property T if and only if the only H-invariant mean on the Borel
subsets of the Pontryagin dual of A, supported at the neighbourhood of the
trivial character, is the Dirac measure.
The Schur algebra is the algebra of operators which are bounded on l^1 and on
l^{\infty}. Q. Sun conjectured that the Schur algebra is inverse-closed. In
this note, we disprove this conjecture. Precisely, we exhibit an operator in
the Schur algebra, invertible in l^2, whose inverse is not bounded on l^1 nor
on l^{\infty}.
The Schur algebra is the algebra of operators which are bounded on l^1 and on
l^{\infty}. Q. Sun conjectured that the Schur algebra is inverse-closed. In
this note, we disprove this conjecture. Precisely, we exhibit an operator in
the Schur algebra, invertible in l^2, whose inverse is not bounded on l^1 nor
on l^{\infty}.
We characterize those Lie groups, and algebraic groups over a local field of
characteristic zero, whose first reduced L^p-cohomology is zero for all p>1,
extending a result of Pansu. As an application, we obtain a description of
Gromov-hyperbolic groups among those groups. In particular we prove that any
non-elementary Gromov-hyperbolic algebraic group over a non-Archimedean local
field of zero characteristic is quasi-isometric to a 3-regular tree.