Kropholler's conjecture on almost invariant sets and tree actions

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Let GG be a group and let HH be a subgroup. A subset S⊂GS\subset G is HH-finite if it is contained in finitely many right cosets of HH. Two subsets are HH-almost equal if their symmetric difference is HH-finite, and a set AA is HH-almost invariant if AA is HH-almost equal to AgAg for every g∈Gg\in G. Such a set is proper if neither AA nor G∖AG\setminus A is HH-finite.

Kropholler's conjecture. If there is a proper HH-almost invariant set AA such that A=AHA=AH, then GG has a non-trivial action on a tree in which HH fixes a vertex vv and every edge incident with vv has an HH-finite stabiliser.

This is a relative form of Stallings' Ends Theorem concerning the action of a group on a tree. The source presents the statement as the Kropholler Conjecture and describes the paper as attempting a complete proof, but the supplied status is unknown; the resolution should therefore be checked.

References

Primary source

M. J. Dunwoody, “The Kropholler Conjecture”, arXiv:2205.04375 (2023).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1601.06965, arXiv:1409.6872.

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