{ "id": "2101.09071", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-01-22T12:09:23.000Z", "updated": "2021-01-22T12:09:23.000Z", "title": "Finitely presented simple groups and measure equivalence", "authors": [ "Antonio López Neumann" ], "comment": "17 pages", "categories": [ "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We exhibit explicit infinite families of finitely presented, Kazhdan, simple groups that are pairwise not measure equivalent. These groups are lattices acting on products of buildings. We obtain the result by studying vanishing and non-vanishing of their $L^2$-Betti numbers.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2021-01-22T12:09:23.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20E32", "20E42", "20F05", "20F55", "20J05", "20J06", "22E41", "28D15" ], "keywords": [ "simple groups", "measure equivalence", "explicit infinite families", "betti numbers", "measure equivalent" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 17, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }