Amenability and geometry of semigroups

Gray, Robert and Kambites, Mark (2017) Amenability and geometry of semigroups. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 369. pp. 8087-8103. ISSN 0002-9947

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Abstract

We study the connection between amenability, Følner conditions and the geometry of finitely generated semigroups. Using results of Klawe, we show that within an extremely broad class of semigroups (encompassing all groups, left cancellative semigroups, finite semigroups, compact topological semigroups, inverse semigroups, regular semigroups, commutative semigroups and semigroups with a left, right or two-sided zero element), left amenability coincides with the strong Følner condition. Within the same class, we show that a finitely generated semigroup of subexponential growth is left amenable if and only if it is left reversible. We show that the (weak) Følner condition is a left quasi-isometry invariant of finitely generated semigroups, and hence that left amenability is a left quasi-isometry invariant of left cancellative semigroups. We also give a new characterisation of the strong Følner condition in terms of the existence of weak Følner sets satisfying a local injectivity condition on the relevant translation action of the semigroup.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Mathematics (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Algebra and Combinatorics (former - to 2024) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Algebra, Logic & Number Theory
Related URLs:	http://www.ams.org/journals/tran/earlyvi...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	01 Apr 2016 10:11
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2024 12:39
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/58035
DOI:	10.1090/tran/6939

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