The Haagerup property is stable under graph products

Yago Antolín, Dennis Dreesen

Published 2013-05-29, updated 2014-02-21Version 3

The Haagerup property, which is a strong converse of Kazhdan's property $(T)$, has translations and applications in various fields of mathematics such as representation theory, harmonic analysis, operator K-theory and so on. Moreover, this group property implies the Baum-Connes conjecture and related Novikov conjecture. The Haagerup property is not preserved under arbitrary group extensions and amalgamated free products over infinite groups, but it is preserved under wreath products and amalgamated free products over finite groups. In this paper, we show that it is also preserved under graph products. We moreover give bounds on the equivariant and non-equivariant $L_p$-compressions of a graph product in terms of the corresponding compressions of the vertex groups. Finally, we give an upper bound on the asymptotic dimension in terms of the asymptotic dimensions of the vertex groups. This generalizes a result from Dranishnikov on the asymptotic dimension of right-angled Coxeter groups.