Amenability, unitarizability, and strong Ulam stability
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Resolves Dixmier's problem for all discrete groups: amenability is equivalent to every uniformly bounded Hilbert-space representation being similar to a unitary representation. For countable discrete groups, amenability is also equivalent to strong Ulam stability: sufficiently accurate unitary approximate representations are uniformly close in operator norm to genuine representations on the same, possibly infinite-dimensional, Hilbert space.
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Unitarizability implies amenability for discrete groups
We prove that a discrete group is amenable if and only if every uniformly bounded representation on a complex Hilbert space is similar to a unitary representation. This resolves Dixmier's unitarizability problem affirmatively for discrete groups.
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A countable discrete group is amenable if and only if it is strongly Ulam stable: every sufficiently accurate unitary almost representation, on any complex Hilbert space, is uniformly close in operator norm to a genuine representation on the same space. We prove the converse to Kazhdan's amenable stability theorem, answering…
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A countable discrete group is amenable if and only if it is strongly Ulam stable: every sufficiently accurate unitary almost representation, on any complex Hilbert space, is uniformly close in operator norm to a genuine representation on the same space. We prove the converse to Kazhdan's amenable stability theorem, answering the question of Burger, Ozawa, and Thom. The inclusion of infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces is essential.
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