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Garrido, Definition 3.9 as printed — with measures valued in [0, 1], only the trivial group is supramenable

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GarridoPrinted.supramenable_iff_subsingleton

by dbenbenn · Oct 3, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

amenabilitygroup-theory

For a group GGG, the following are equivalent: for every nonempty A⊆GA \subseteq GA⊆G there is a finitely additive, left-invariant m:P(G)→[0,∞]m : \mathcal P(G) \to [0, \infty]m:P(G)→[0,∞] with m(s)≤1m(s) \le 1m(s)≤1 for every s⊆Gs \subseteq Gs⊆G and m(A)=1m(A) = 1m(A)=1; and GGG has at most one element.

IsFinitelyAdditiveMeasure (m(∅)=0m(\emptyset) = 0m(∅)=0 and m(s∪t)=m(s)+m(t)m(s \cup t) = m(s) + m(t)m(s∪t)=m(s)+m(t) for disjoint s,ts, ts,t) and IsInvariant G m (m(gs)=m(s)m(g s) = m(s)m(gs)=m(s) for all ggg and sss) are from the Garrido amenability definitions bundle; the bound m(s)≤1m(s) \le 1m(s)≤1 is the codomain [0,1][0, 1][0,1] of the printed definition, written inside [0,∞][0, \infty][0,∞].

Garrido writes on p. 11: “Definition 3.9. A group GGG is supramenable if for every ∅≠A⊆G\emptyset \neq A \subseteq G∅=A⊆G there is a finitely additive left-invariant measure μ:P(G)→[0,1]\mu : \mathcal P(G) \to [0, 1]μ:P(G)→[0,1] such that μ(A)=1\mu(A) = 1μ(A)=1.” Read literally this is satisfied only by the trivial group: taking A={1}A = \{1\}A={1}, invariance gives μ({g})=1\mu(\{g\}) = 1μ({g})=1 for every ggg, and two distinct points would give μ({1,g})=2\mu(\{1, g\}) = 2μ({1,g})=2. The bundle's IsSupramenable therefore takes values in [0,∞][0, \infty][0,∞], as in Rosenblatt's definition, under which Theorem 3.10(2) (Garrido.isSupramenable_of_isExponentiallyBounded: finitely generated groups of subexponential growth are supramenable, so Z\mathbb ZZ is) holds; this theorem records why the printed codomain cannot be the intended one.

Preamble
import Mathlib
import Definitions.Def_Garrido_Amenability
Formal statement
namespace GarridoPrinted

theorem supramenable_iff_subsingleton (G : Type*) [Group G] :
    (∀ A : Set G, A.Nonempty → ∃ m : Set G → ENNReal,
      Garrido.IsFinitelyAdditiveMeasure m ∧ (∀ s, m s ≤ 1) ∧ m A = 1 ∧ Garrido.IsInvariant G m) ↔
      Subsingleton G := by
  sorry

end GarridoPrinted
Source
A. Garrido, "An introduction to amenable groups", lecture notes, Oxford Advanced Class in Algebra, Michaelmas 2013 (PDF, Feb 2015), p. 11, Definition 3.9; https://web.archive.org/web/20260805000803/https://www.math.uni-duesseldorf.de/~garrido/amenable.pdf

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