{ "id": "2110.09289", "version": "v3", "published": "2021-10-14T18:28:57.000Z", "updated": "2022-07-06T09:48:56.000Z", "title": "Weak amenability of free products of hyperbolic and amenable groups", "authors": [ "Ignacio Vergara" ], "comment": "Final version. 5 pages. Published in Glasgow Mathematical Journal", "doi": "10.1017/S0017089521000458", "categories": [ "math.GR", "math.DS", "math.OA" ], "abstract": "We show that, if $G$ is an amenable group and $H$ is a hyperbolic group, then the free product $G\\ast H$ is weakly amenable. A key ingredient in the proof is the fact that $G\\ast H$ is orbit equivalent to $\\mathbb{Z}\\ast H$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2022-07-06T09:48:56.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "free product", "amenable group", "weak amenability", "hyperbolic group" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }