Dirichlet-Poincaré profiles of graphs and groups

Abstract

We define Poincaré profiles of Dirichlet type for graphs of bounded degree, in analogy with the Poincaré profiles (of Neumann type) defined in [HMT19]. The obvious first definition yields nothing of interest, but an alternative definition yields a spectrum of profiles which are quasi-isometry invariants and monotone with respect to subgroup inclusion. Moreover, in the extremal cases $p=1$ and $p=\infty$, they detect the Følner function and the growth function respectively.

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