5 papers
Cellular waists of hyperbolic spaces
Grigori Avramidi, Thomas Delzant
We find lower bounds on the topological complexity of fibers of PL and generic smooth maps , where is a closed hyperbolic manifold of large injec…
Group rings and hyperbolic geometry
Grigori Avramidi, Thomas Delzant
For a group acting on a hyperbolic space, we set up an algorithm in the group algebra showing that ideals generated by few elements are free, where few is a function of the minimal…
L^2-Betti numbers in prime characteristic and a conjecture of Wise
Grigori Avramidi, Wolfgang Lueck
We systematically study L^2-Betti numbers in zero and prime characteristic and apply them to a conjecture of Wise stating that all towers of a finite 2-complex are non-positive if…
L^2-Betti numbers of branched covers of hyperbolic manifolds
Grigori Avramidi, Boris Okun, Kevin Schreve
We show that Gromov-Thurston branched covers satisfy the Singer conjecture whenever the degree of the cover is not divisible by a finite set of primes determined by the base manifo…
Edge subdivisions and the -homology of right-angled Coxeter groups
Grigori Avramidi, Boris Okun, Kevin Schreve
If is a flag triangulation of , then the Davis complex for the associated right-angled Coxeter group is a contractible -manifold. A special case of a c…