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Kazhdan constant and finite index subgroups

I am wondering if there is some general relation between Kazhdan constants of a group and it finite index subgroups? Let $G$ be a finitely generated group with a generating set $\Sigma$ that ...
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Do acyclic amenable groups exist?

Is there an example of a nontrivial discrete amenable group with vanishing integral homology? To put the question in contrapositive. Given arbitrary acyclic group $Q$, is there some reason for the ...
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Isomorphisms of group extensions arising from antisymmetric forms

Let $V,W$ be topological vector spaces and fix continuous antisymmetric bilinear forms $\omega_1:V\times V\to \mathbb{R}$, $\omega_2:W\times W\to\mathbb{R}$. Since $\omega_1$ is a 2-cocycle (in fact ...
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