Critical exponents of normal subgroups, the spectrum of group extended transfer operators, and Kazhdan distance (Q2419267)
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Critical exponents of normal subgroups, the spectrum of group extended transfer operators, and Kazhdan distance (English)
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29 May 2019
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For a pinched Hadamard manifold $X$ and a discrete group of isometries $\Gamma$ of $X$, the critical exponent $\delta _\Gamma$ is the exponential growth rate of the orbit of a point in $X$ under the action of $\Gamma$. The author proves that the critical exponent for any family of normal subgroups of $\Gamma _0$ has the same coarse behaviour as the Kazhdan distances for the right regular representations of the quotients $\Gamma_0/\Gamma$. The key tool is to analyse the spectrum of transfer operators associated to subshifts of finite type.
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critical exponent
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negatively curved space
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transfer operator
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Kazhdan
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