On quasi-free Hilbert modules.
We give a new perspective on the homological characterizations of amenability given by Johnson & Ringrose in the context of bounded cohomology and by Block & Weinberger in the context of uniformly finite homology. We examine the interaction between their theories and explain the relationship between these characterizations. We apply these ideas to give a new proof of non-vanishing for the bounded cohomology of a free group.
Soient une -algèbre approximativement finie simple avec unité, le groupe des inversibles et le groupe des unitaires de . Nous avons défini dans un précédent travail un homomorphisme , appelé déterminant universel de , de sur un groupe abélien associé à . Nous montrons ici que, pour qu’un élément dans ou dans soit produit d’un nombre fini de commutateurs, il (faut et il) suffit que Ceci permet en particulier d’identifier le noyau de la projection canonique On établit aussi...
This note is to report some of the advances obtained as a follow-up of the book [2] on the topic of twisted sums of Banach spaces. Since this announcement is no longer enough to contain the theory being developed, we submit the interested reader to [2] and to [1], where full details and proofs shall appear.
The structure of the section space of a real analytic vector bundle on a real analytic manifold X is studied. This is used to improve a result of Grothendieck and Poly on the zero spaces of elliptic operators and to extend a result of Domański and the author on the non-existence of bases to the present case.