{"title":"On a linearization trick","authors":"G. Pisier","doi":"10.4171/LEM/64-3/4-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/LEM/64-3/4-5","url":null,"abstract":"In several situations, mainly involving the unitary generators of a $C^*$-algebra, we show that any matrix polynomial in the generators and the unit that is in the open unit ball can be written as a product of matrix polynomials of degree 1 also in the open unit ball.","PeriodicalId":344085,"journal":{"name":"L’Enseignement Mathématique","volume":"196 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121315999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A simplification problem in manifold theory","authors":"J. Hausmann, B. Jahren","doi":"10.4171/LEM/64-1/2-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/LEM/64-1/2-8","url":null,"abstract":"Two smooth manifolds M and N are called R-diffeomorphic if their product with the real line are diffeomorphic. We consider the following simplification problem: does R-diffeomorphism imply diffeomorphism or homeomorphism? For compact manifolds, analysis of this problem relies on some of the main achievements of the theory of manifolds, in particular the h- and s-cobordism theorems in high dimensions and the spectacular more recent classification results in dimensions 3 and 4. This paper presents what is currently known about the subject as well as some new results about classifications of R-diffeomorphisms.","PeriodicalId":344085,"journal":{"name":"L’Enseignement Mathématique","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129318550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthieu Dussaule, Ilya Gekhtman, V. Gerasimov, Leonid Potyagailo Lmjl, Lpp
{"title":"The Martin boundary of relatively hyperbolic groups with virtually abelian parabolic subgroups","authors":"Matthieu Dussaule, Ilya Gekhtman, V. Gerasimov, Leonid Potyagailo Lmjl, Lpp","doi":"10.4171/LEM/66-3/4-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/LEM/66-3/4-3","url":null,"abstract":"Given a probability measure on a finitely generated group, its Martin boundary is a way to compactify the group using the Green's function of the corresponding random walk. We give a complete topological characterization of the Martin boundary of finitely supported random walks on relatively hyperbolic groups with virtually abelian parabolic subgroups. In particular, in the case of nonuniform lattices in the real hyperbolic space H n , we show that the Martin boundary coincides with the CAT (0) boundary of the truncated space, and thus when n = 3, is homeomorphic to the Sierpinski carpet.","PeriodicalId":344085,"journal":{"name":"L’Enseignement Mathématique","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130143142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An elementary and unified proof of Grothendieck’s inequality","authors":"S. Friedland, Lek-Heng Lim, Jinjie Zhang","doi":"10.4171/LEM/64-3/4-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/LEM/64-3/4-6","url":null,"abstract":"We present an elementary, self-contained proof of Grothendieck's inequality that unifies both the real and complex cases and yields both the Krivine and Haagerup bounds, the current best-known bounds for the real and complex Grothendieck constants respectively.","PeriodicalId":344085,"journal":{"name":"L’Enseignement Mathématique","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114228645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acylindrical actions on projection complexes","authors":"M. Bestvina, K. Bromberg, K. Fujiwara, A. Sisto","doi":"10.4171/lem/65-1/2-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/lem/65-1/2-1","url":null,"abstract":"We simplify the construction of projection complexes due to Bestvina-Bromberg-Fujiwara. To do so, we introduce a sharper version of the Behrstock inequality, and show that it can always be enforced. Furthermore, we use the new setup to prove acylindricity results for the action on the projection complexes. We also treat quasi-trees of metric spaces associated to projection complexes, and prove an acylindricity criterion in that context as well.","PeriodicalId":344085,"journal":{"name":"L’Enseignement Mathématique","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128837159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hyperbolicities in CAT(0) cube complexes","authors":"A. Genevois","doi":"10.4171/lem/65-1/2-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/lem/65-1/2-2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a survey dedicated to the following question: given a group acting on some CAT(0) cube complex, how to exploit this action to determine whether or not the group is Gromov / relatively / acylindrically hyperbolic? As much as possible, the different criteria we mention are illustrated by applications. We also propose a model for universal acylindrical actions of cubulable groups and give a few applications to Morse, stable and hyperbolically embedded subgroups.","PeriodicalId":344085,"journal":{"name":"L’Enseignement Mathématique","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129775358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A sixteen-relator presentation of an infinite hyperbolic Kazhdan group","authors":"P. Caprace","doi":"10.4171/LEM/64-3/4-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/LEM/64-3/4-2","url":null,"abstract":"We provide an explicit presentation of an infinite hyperbolic Kazhdan group with $4$ generators and $16$ relators of length at most $73$. That group acts properly and cocompactly on a hyperbolic triangle building of type $(3,4,4)$. We also point out a variation of the construction that yields examples of lattices in $tilde A_2$-buildings admitting non-Desarguesian residues of arbitrary prime power order.","PeriodicalId":344085,"journal":{"name":"L’Enseignement Mathématique","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126423282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Kähler structures on products of 2-spheres","authors":"J.-F. Lafont, Gangotryi Sorcar, F. Zheng","doi":"10.4171/LEM/64-1/2-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/LEM/64-1/2-5","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a family of K\"ahler structures on products of 2-spheres, arising from complex Bott manifolds. These are obtained via iterated $mathbb P^1$-bundle constructions, generalizing the classical Hirzebruch surfaces. We show that the resulting K\"ahler structures all have identical Chern classes. We construct Bott diagrams, which are rooted forests with an edge labelling by positive integers, and show that these classify these K\"ahler structures up to biholomorphism.","PeriodicalId":344085,"journal":{"name":"L’Enseignement Mathématique","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130833533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Tits alternative for finite rank median spaces","authors":"Elia Fioravanti","doi":"10.4171/LEM/64-1/2-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4171/LEM/64-1/2-4","url":null,"abstract":"We prove a version of the Tits alternative for groups acting on complete, finite rank median spaces. This shows that group actions on finite rank median spaces are much more restricted than actions on general median spaces. Along the way, we extend to median spaces the Caprace-Sageev machinery and part of Hagen's theory of unidirectional boundary sets.","PeriodicalId":344085,"journal":{"name":"L’Enseignement Mathématique","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122083766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}