Introduction to Sofic and Hyperlinear Groups and Connes' Embedding Conjecture: 2136 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

by Martino Lupini (Contributor), Valerio Capraro (Author), Vladimir Pestov (Contributor)

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  This point of view, rarely explicitly adopted in the literature, clarifies the ideas therein, and provides additional tools to attack open problems.Sofic and hyperlinear groups are countable discrete groups that can be suitably approximated by finite symmetric groups and groups of unitary matrices.