Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 21st of October 2009, 3:00-3:50

Groups and Dynamics Seminar


Generalized expanders

Jerry Kaminker of University of California at Davis


We study the class of expanders introduced by R. Tessera and compare them with usual expanders. The extent to which non-coarse-embeddability results apply in this setting will be considered. The general idea is to try to use expanders to probe a space and see how they effect approaches to the Novikov conjecture based on boundaries. This is joint work with Lucas Sabalka.