Coarse embeddings, and yet more ways to avoid them

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• David Hume (Bristol)
• Friday 05 May 2023, 13:45-14:45
• MR13.

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Coarse embeddings (maps between metric spaces whose distortion can be controlled by some function) occur naturally in various areas of pure mathematics, most notably in topology and algebra. It may therefore come as a surprise to discover that it is not known whether there is a coarse embedding of three-dimensional real hyperbolic space into the direct product of a real hyperbolic plane and a 3-regular tree. One reason for this is that there are very few invariants which behave monotonically with respect to coarse embeddings, and thus could be used to obstruct coarse embeddings.

 

In this talk I will discuss some new invariants which combine two very classical invariants – asymptotic dimension and growth – to give different obstructions to coarse embeddings. This is joint work with John Mackay and Romain Tessera.

This talk is part of the Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar series.

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