On Kazhdan's property (T) for the special linear group of holomorphic functions (Q2448508)

The main result of the paper states that if \(n\geq 3\) and \(X\) is a Stein manifold having finitely many connected components for which all holomorphic maps from it to SL\(_{n}(\mathbb C)\) are null-homotopic, then SL\(_{n}(\mathcal O (X))\) has Kazhdan's property (T). This property, which expresses a certain rigidity for unitary Hilbert spaces representations of a topological group is presented in the paper. Several interesting corollaries and a generalization are also presented.