Guy Salomon

$\mathbb{Z}^2$ is flexibly stable in the operator norm

A cornerstone of stability theory is Voiculescu's 1983 counterexample: he constructed a sequence of pairs of unitary matrices whose commutators converge to zero in the operator norm, but whose distances from the set of commuting unitary pairs remain bounded away from zero. Namely, the group $\mathbb{Z}^2$ is not stable...