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Amenability+ · Question 1

Amenability of discrete groups · Historical workshop question

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Problem statement

Is there an amenable hereditary just-infinite group that is not elementary amenable? Is there a finitely presented one?

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Questions pertaining to extensions, relexations, and generalizations of the notions of amenability and related properties (such as the Liouville property). Amenability in conjuction with other properties (is there an amenable ______ group?).

Question context

Definition: A hereditary just-infinite group GG is a residually finite group such that every finite index subgroup of it is just-infinite.

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