Operator Algebra Seminars

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Date, time & place Wednesday 16:30 - 18:00 122Room #122 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

2010/06/03

16:30-18:00   Room #122 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Makoto Yamashita (Univ. Tokyo)
Fixed Points in the Stone-Cech boundary of Groups (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
We discuss the class of discrete groups which admit fixed points under the adjoint action on the Stone-Cech boundary. Such groups have vanishing $L^2$-Betti numbers, and nonamenable ones fail to have property (AO).