Admissibility conjecture and Kazhdan's property (T) for quantum groups (Q1738995)

The Admissibility Conjecture stating that ``every finite-dimensional unitary representation of a locally compact quantum group is admissible'' is an open problem in the theory of quantum groups; see [\textit{M. Daws}, Ill. J. Math. 57, No. 4, 1131--1171 (2013; Zbl 1305.43006)]. The authors give a partial answer to this conjecture. They prove that all finite-dimensional representations of a wide class of locally compact quantum groups factor through matrix quantum groups. They employ it to investigate Property (T) and related problems, in particular on unimodular locally compact quantum groups with non-trivial scaling automorphism group. In fact, they prove a quantum version of Wang's theorem (see [\textit{P. S. Wang}, Math. Ann. 218, 19--34 (1975; Zbl 0332.22009)]), which characterises Property (T) in terms of the isolation of finite-dimensional irreducible representations in the spectrum, and also present generalized versions of the Bekka-Valette theorem (characterising Property (T) in terms of the non-existence of almost invariant vectors for weakly mixing representations) and the Kerr-Pichot theorem (characterising Property (T) in terms of density properties of weakly mixing representations) for the considered quantum groups; see [\textit{M. Brannan} and \textit{D. Kerr}, Commun. Math. Phys. 360, No. 3, 1043--1059 (2018; Zbl 1429.20032)]. In particular, they show that for unimodular quantum groups with non-trivial scaling automorphism group, the weakly mixing representations are dense in the set of representations on a separable Hilbert space if the quantum group does not have Property (T).