Invariant expectations and vanishing of bounded cohomology for exact groups

Abstract

We study exactness of groups and establish a characterization of exact groups in terms of the existence of a continuous linear operator, called an invariant expectation, whose properties make it a weak counterpart of an invariant mean on a group. We apply this operator to show that exactness of a finitely generated group $G$ implies the vanishing of the bounded cohomology of $G$ with coefficients in a new class of modules, which are defined using the Hopf algebra structure of ${\ell }_1(G)$.

Final version, to appear in the Journal of Topology and Analysis

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