Coarse embeddings into a Hilbert space, Haagerup Property and Poincaré inequalities

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)87-100
Number of pages14
JournalJournal of Topology and Analysis
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Coarse embeddability into a Hilbert space
  • Haagerup Property
  • relative Property
  • sequences of expanders

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