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    Forest-skein groups II: Construction from homogeneously presented monoids

    Inspired by the reconstruction program of conformal field theories of Vaughan Jones we recently introduced a vast class of the so-called forest-skein groups. They are built from a skein presentation: a set of colors and a set of pairs of colored trees. Each nice skein presentation produces four groups similar to Richard Thompson’s group F,T,V and the braided version BV of Brin and Dehornoy.

    In this paper, we consider forest-skein groups obtained from one-dimensional skein presentations; the data of a homogeneous monoid presentation. We decompose these groups as wreath products. This permits to classify them up to isomorphisms. Moreover, we prove that a number of properties of the fraction group of the monoid pass through the forest-skein groups such as the Haagerup property, homological and topological finiteness properties, and orderability.

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    COARSE EMBEDDINGS INTO A HILBERT SPACE, HAAGERUP PROPERTY AND POINCARÉ INEQUALITIES

    We prove that a metric space does not coarsely embed into a Hilbert space if and only if it satisfies a sequence of Poincaré inequalities, which can be formulated in terms of (generalized) expanders. We also give quantitative statements, relative to the compression. In the equivariant context, our result says that a group does not have the Haagerup Property if and only if it has relative property T with respect to a family of probabilities whose supports go to infinity. We give versions of this result both in terms of unitary representations, and in terms of affine isometric actions on Hilbert spaces.

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    Infinitely presented small cancellation groups have the Haagerup property

    We prove the Haagerup property (= Gromov's a-T-menability) for finitely generated groups defined by infinite presentations satisfying the C'(1/6)-small cancellation condition. We deduce that these groups are coarsely embeddable into a Hilbert space and that the strong Baum–Connes conjecture holds for them. The result is a first nontrivial advancement in understanding groups with such properties among infinitely presented non-amenable direct limits of hyperbolic groups. The proof uses the structure of a space with walls introduced by Wise. As the main step we show that C'(1/6)-complexes satisfy the linear separation property.

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    Warped cones over profinite completions

    We construct metric spaces that do not have property A yet are coarsely embeddable into the Hilbert space. Our examples are so-called warped cones, which were introduced by J. Roe to serve as examples of spaces non-embeddable into a Hilbert space and with or without property A. The construction provides the first examples of warped cones combining coarse embeddability and lack of property A.

    We also construct warped cones over manifolds with isometrically embedded expanders and generalise Roe’s criteria for the lack of property A or coarse embeddability of a warped cone. Along the way, it is proven that property A of the warped cone over a profinite completion is equivalent to amenability of the group.

    In the Appendix we solve a problem of Nowak regarding his examples of spaces with similar properties.

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    Straightening warped cones

    We provide the converses to two results of Roe [Warped cones and property A, Geom. Topol. 9 (2005) 163–178, doi:10.2140/9t.2005.9.163]: first, the warped cone associated to a free action of an a-T-menable group admits a fibered coarse embedding into a Hilbert space, and second, a free action yielding a warped cone with property A must be amenable. We construct examples showing that in both cases the freeness assumption is necessary. The first equivalence is obtained also for other classes of Banach spaces, in particular for Lp-spaces.