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Property A and CAT(0) cubical groups


Abstract

The main results of the paper are: Property A is a non-equivariant analog of amenability defined for metric spaces by Yu in his work on the Novikov conjecture. The first result above is proven by directly constructing the `Folner sets' called for in Yu's original definition. The result applies to non-locally finite complexes.

The same construction, suitably adapted to allow a basepoint at infinity, is the essential ingredient in the proof of the second result above.