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Higher Kazhdan projections for one relator groups
Abstract
We study the K-theory classes of higher Kazhdan projections of a discrete group under a spectral-gap assumption and recall how they are obtained, via the Baum--Connes assembly map, from equivariant Euler classes. After reviewing the case of virtually free groups, where the universal space for proper actions has a one-dimensional model, we prove the main new result: an explicit description of the K-theory class of the first higher Kazhdan projection for finitely generated infinite one-relator groups whose first Laplacian has a spectral gap. If moreover the one-relator group is hyperbolic, this also gives corresponding formulas for delocalised ℓ2-Betti numbers.
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BibTeX
@misc{pooya2026higher,
title = {{Higher Kazhdan projections for one relator groups}},
author = {Sanaz Pooya and Baiying Ren and Hang Wang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.00493},
eprint = {2609.00493},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00493},
note = {CC BY-NC-SA 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Higher Kazhdan projections for one relator groups
AU - Sanaz Pooya
AU - Baiying Ren
AU - Hang Wang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.00493
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00493
AB - We study the K-theory classes of higher Kazhdan projections of a discrete group under a spectral-gap assumption and recall how they are obtained, via the Baum--Connes assembly map, from equivariant Euler classes. After reviewing the case of virtually free groups, where the universal space for proper actions has a one-dimensional model, we prove the main new result: an explicit description of the K-theory class of the first higher Kazhdan projection for finitely generated infinite one-relator groups whose first Laplacian has a spectral gap. If moreover the one-relator group is hyperbolic, this also gives corresponding formulas for delocalised ℓ^2-Betti numbers.
ER -