Expansive actions on uniform spaces and surjunctive maps

Abstract

We present a uniform version of a result of M. Gromov on the surjunctivity of maps commuting with expansive group actions and discuss several applications. We prove in particular that for any group $\Gamma$ and any field $\K$, the space of $\Gamma$-marked groups $G$ such that the group algebra $\K[G]$ is stably finite is compact.