Identity excluding groups

DOI10.1016/S0007-4497(02)01142-9MaRDI QIDQ1865249zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. R. E. Raja

Publication date 26 March 2003

Published in Bulletin des Sciences Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0212284

zbMATH Keywords

\(p\)-adic algebraic groupstotally disconnected groupsunitary representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) Ergodic theory of linear operators (47A35)

Abstract: We consider the class of groups called identity excluding which has the property that any non-trivial irreducible unitary representation restricted to a dense subgroup does not weakly contain the trivial representation. For adapted and strictly aperiodic probability measures on these groups, it is known that the averages of unitary representations converge strongly. We show that motion group of a totally disconnected nilpotent group and certain class of p-adic algebraic groups which includes gruops whose solvable radical is type R are identity excluding. We also prove the convergence of averages of unitary representations for split solvable algebraic groups, which are not necessarily identity excluding.

Review text

A group \(G\) is called identity excluding if there is no non-trivial irreducible representation \(T\) for which there is a dense subgroup \(D\) in \(G\) such that the restriction \(T_D\) of \(T\) on \(D\) weakly contains the trivial representation \(I_D\), i.e. for all \(g\in D\) there is a sequence of unit vectors \(v_n\) such that \(\|T(g)v_n - v_n\|\to 0\) as \(n\to \infty\). The author proves that the following groups are identity excluding: 1) split compact extensions of totally disconnected nilpotent groups (Theorem 3.1); 2) finite extensions of a nilpotent group (Theorem 3.2); 3) \(p\)-adic algebraic groups whose solvable radical is of type R (Theorem 4.1, Corollary 4.1); 4) \(p\)-adic algebraic groups whose solvable radical is not of type \(R\) but whose unipotent radical is of type \(R_L\) for the Levi subgroup of the semisimple part (Theorem 4.2). In the last section the author proves the convergence of the average of the representations for some solvable groups which are not necessarily identity excluding (Theorems 5.1 and 5.2).

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