Identity excluding groups (Q1865249)

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).