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The Bounded Cohomology of SL2 Over Local Fields and S-Integers

Nicolas Monod

It is proved that the continuous bounded cohomology of SL2(k) vanishes in all positive degrees whenever k is a non-Archimedean local field. This holds more generally for boundary-transitive groups of tree automorphisms and implies low degree vanishing for ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2019

Kaleidoscopic groups: permutation groups constructed from dendrite homeomorphisms

Nicolas Monod

Given a transitive permutation group, a fundamental object for studying its higher transitivity properties is the permutation action of its isotropy subgroup. We reverse this relationship and introduce a universal construction of infinite permutation group ...

POLISH ACAD SCIENCES INST MATHEMATICS-IMPAN2019

Group Actions On Dendrites And Curves

Nicolas Monod

We establish obstructions for groups to act by homeomorphisms on dendrites. For instance, lattices in higher rank simple Lie groups will always fix a point or a pair. The same holds for irreducible lattices in products of connected groups. Further results ...

ANNALES INST FOURIER2018

Extensive amenability and an application to interval exchanges

Nicolas Monod, Nicolas Matte Bon

Extensive amenability is a property of group actions which has recently been used as a tool to prove amenability of groups. We study this property and prove that it is preserved under a very general construction of semidirect products. As an application, w ...

2018

The cup product of Brooks quasimorphisms

Nicolas Monod

We prove the vanishing of the cup product of the bounded cohomology classes associated to any two Brooks quasimorphisms on the free group. This is a consequence of the vanishing of the square of a universal class for tree automorphism groups. ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2018

Fixed Points For Bounded Orbits In Hilbert Spaces

Nicolas Monod, Maxime Gheysens

Consider the following property of a topological group G: every continuous affine G-action on a Hilbert space with a bounded orbit has a fixed point. We prove that this property characterizes amenability for locally compact a-compact groups (e.g., countabl ...

Elsevier2017

Variations on a theme by Higman

Nicolas Monod

We propose elementary and explicit presentations of groups that have no amenable quotients and yet are SQ-universal. Examples include groups with a finite K (pi,1), no Kazhdan subgroups and no Haagerup quotients. ...

Elsevier2017

Extreme points in non-positive curvature

Nicolas Monod

A natural analogue of the Krein-Milman theorem is shown to fail for CAT(0) spaces. ...

Polish Acad Sciences Inst Mathematics-Impan2016

An indiscrete Bieberbach theorem: from amenable CAT$(0)$ groups to Tits buildings

Nicolas Monod

Non-positively curved spaces admitting a cocompact isometric action of an amenable group are investigated. A classification is established under the assumption that there is no global fixed point at infinity under the full isometry group. The visual bounda ...

2015

Equivariant measurable liftings

Nicolas Monod

We discuss equivariance for linear liftings of measurable functions. Existence is established when a transformation group acts amenably, as e.g. the Mobius group of the projective line. Since the general proof is very simple but not explicit, we also provi ...

Polish Acad Sciences Inst Mathematics-Impan2015