Representation growth and representation zeta functions of groups (Q2856430)

In the paper under review, the author gives a survey on the topics of representation growth and representation zeta functions of groups. The author considers the arithmetic properties of the sequence \(r_n(G)\) and the asymptotic behavior of \(R_N(G)=\sum^N_{n=1}r_n(G)\), where \(r_n(G)\) is the number of isomorphism classes of \(n\)-dimensional irreducible complex representations of \(G\). It turns out that these information can be captured by the representation zeta function of \(G\): NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \zeta_G(s)=\sum^\infty_{n=1}r_n(G)n^{-s},\quad s\in\mathbb{C}. NEWLINE\]NEWLINE In particular, the author is mainly interested in the group \(G\) whose representation growth is not too fast, in which case the distribution of character degrees can be studied using \(\zeta_G(s)\); important examples include arithmetic groups in semisimple algebraic groups with the Congruence Subgroup Property and open compact subgroups of \(p\)-adic Lie groups. Then the author mentions several results regarding these types of groups in the recent joint work with N. Avni, U. Onn and C. Voll.