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Uniform Isoperimetric Constants via Random Forests

Presenter
September 19, 2011
Keywords:
  • quantitative geometry
  • probability theory
  • Cayley graphs
  • geometric group theory
  • isoperimetric inequality
MSC:
  • 60-xx
  • 60Gxx
  • 20F65
  • 20F69
Abstract
A finitely generated group is non-amenable iff any of its Cayley graphs has a positive isoperimetric constant. That constant depends on the generating set chosen. We show that groups whose first ell^2-Betti number is positive have a positive lower bound to their isoperimetric constant over all generating sets. We do this by considering the free uniform spanning forests in the Cayley graphs. This is joint work with Mikael Pichot and Stephane Vassout.