FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2008
4PM | MILNER 317
Yves de Cornulier, CNRS, France
Haagerup Property of wreath products
A countable group has the Haagerup Property if it possesses a proper isometric action on a Hilbert space. We show (joint with Y. Stalder and A. Valette) that the class of groups with the Haagerup Property is closed under wreath products.