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Vanishing first cohomology and strong 1-boundedness for von Neumann algebras

Ben Hayes·David Jekel·Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli
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In this paper, we obtain a new proof result of Shlyakhtenko which states that if $G$ is a sofic, finitely presented group with vanishing first $\ell^2$-Betti number, then $L(G)$ is strongly 1-bounded. Our proof of this result adapts and simplifies Jung's technical arguments which showed strong 1-boundedness under certain conditions on the Fuglede-Kadison determinant of the matrix capturing the relations. Our proof also features a key idea due to Jung which involves an iterative estimate for the covering numbers of microstate spaces. We also provide a short proof using works of Shlyakhtenko and Shalom that the von Neumann algebras of sofic groups with Property T are strongly 1 bounded, which is a special case of another result by the authors.

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Ben Hayes, David Jekel, Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli. 2023-05-10. Vanishing first cohomology and strong 1-boundedness for von Neumann algebras. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12324

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