Property A was introduced by Yu as a non-equivariant analogue of amenability. Nigel Higson posed the question of whether there is a homological characterisation of property A. In this paper we answer Higsons question affirmatively by constructing analogues of group cohomology and bounded cohomology for a metric space X, and show that property A is equivalent to vanishing cohomology. Using these cohomology theories we also give a characterisation of property A in terms of the existence of an asymptotically invariant mean on the space.
This paper investigates the cohomological property of vector bundles on biprojective space. We will give a criterion for a vector bundle to be isomorphic to the tensor product of pullbacks of exterior products of differential sheaves.
We introduce a new type of boundary for proper geodesic spaces, called the Morse boundary, that is constructed with rays that identify the hyperbolic directions in that space. This boundary is a quasi-isometry invariant and thus produces a well-defined boundary for any finitely generated group. In the case of a proper $mathrm{CAT}(0)$ space this boundary is the contracting boundary of Charney and Sultan and in the case of a proper Gromov hyperbolic space this boundary is the Gromov boundary. We prove three results about the Morse boundary of Teichmuller space. First, we show that the Morse boundary of the mapping class group of a surface is homeomorphic to the Morse boundary of the Teichmuller space of that surface. Second, using a result of Leininger and Schleimer, we show that Morse boundaries of Teichmuller space can contain spheres of arbitrarily high dimension. Finally, we show that there is an injective continuous map of the Morse boundary of Teichmuller space into the Thurston compactification of Teichmuller space by projective measured foliations.
We prove that graph products constructed over infinite graphs with bounded clique number preserve finite asymptotic dimension. We also study the extent to which Dranishnikovs property C, and Dranishnikov and Zarichnyis straight finite decomposition complexity are preserved by constructions such as unions, free products, and group extensions.
We introduce the notion of $Delta$ and $sigma,Delta-$ pairs for operator algebras and characterise $Delta-$ pairs through their categories of left operator modules over these algebras. Furthermore, we introduce the notion of $Delta$-Morita equivalent operator spaces and prove a similar theorem about their algebraic extensions. We prove that $sigmaDelta$-Morita equivalent operator spaces are stably isomorphic and vice versa. Finally, we study unital operator spaces, emphasising their left (resp. right) multiplier algebras, and prove theorems that refer to $Delta$-Morita equivalence of their algebraic extensions.