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De Chiffre, Glebsky, Lubotzky, Thom, Stability, cohomology vanishing, and non-approximable groups, arXiv 2017-2018.

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Thom, Finitary approximations of groups and their applications, ICM 2018 Proceedings.

Vaes, An inner amenable group whose von Neumann algebra does not have property Gamma, Acta Mathematica 2012.

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Houdayer, Spectral gap in von Neumann algebras and applications, online lecture notes.