Bounded generation and Kazhdan's property (T) (Q5932373)

A group \(G\) is said to be boundedly generated if it has a finite subset \(S\) and some number \(\nu\), depending only on \(G\) and \(S\), such that every \(g\in G\) can be written as a product: \(g=g^{k_1}_1 g_2^{k_2} \dots g_\nu^{k_\nu}\), with \(g_i\in S\) and \(k_i\) integers. Let \(G\) be a topological group, \(K\subset G\) a subset, \(\varepsilon >0\), and \((\pi,H)\) a continuous unitary \(G\)-representation. A vector \(v\in H\) is called \((K,\varepsilon)\)-invariant, if \(\|\pi (g)v-v \|< \varepsilon\|v\|\) \(\forall g\in K\). The group \(G\) is said to have Kazhdan's property \((T)\) if there exist a compact set \(K\subset G\) and \(\varepsilon>0\), such that every continuous unitary \(G\)-representation with a \((K,\varepsilon)\)-invariant vector contains a nonzero \(G\)-invariant vector. In this case, \((K,\varepsilon)\) are called Kazhdan constants for \(G\). In this paper the author makes strong use of the property of bounded generation in the study of Kazhdan's property \((T)\).