Mathematics – Functional Analysis
Scientific paper
2010-06-09
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Volume 26, Number 3, March 2010
Mathematics
Functional Analysis
23 pages. Mistake corrected in statement of P2
Scientific paper
10.3934/dcds.2010.26.xx
Let G be an amenable group and V be a finite dimensional vector space. Gromov pointed out that the von Neumann dimension of linear subspaces of l^2(G;V) (with respect to G) can be obtained by looking at a growth factor for a dynamical (pseudo-)distance. This dynamical point of view (reminiscent of metric entropy) does not requires a Hilbertian structure. It is used in this article to associate to a $\Gamma$-invariant linear subspaces Y of l^p(G;V) a real positive number dim_{l^p} Y (which is the von Neumann dimension when p=2). By analogy with von Neumann dimension, the properties of this quantity are explored to conclude that there can be no injective G-equivariant linear map of finite-type from l^p(G;V) -> l^p(G; V') if dim V > dim V'. A generalization of the Ornstein-Weiss lemma is developed along the way.
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