Strongly converging unitary representations for extensions by exact groups

Abstract

We prove the existence of strongly converging unitary representations in various new settings of countable groups, in particular, arising as extensions by exact groups: semidirect products with amenable groups; generalized wreath products with abelian base; graph wreath products; various free-by-cyclic groups including Gersten's group; and general Bernoulli shift crossed products on $C^{\ast }$-algebras.

11 pages. Comments welcome