New Kazhdan groups
The locally compact groups which are nowadays referred to as Kazhdan groups have been introduced in 1967 by Kazhdan as those locally compact groups \(G\) for which the trivial 1-dimensional representation of \(G\) forms an isolated point in the dual space \(\widehat G\) of \(G\). At least for second countable \(G\) this condition is equivalent to that, for any unitary representation \(\pi\) of \(G\), the first continuous cohomology group \(H^1(G, \pi)\) is trivial. Kazhdan groups have since attracted a lot of attention and turned out to be important in several areas of mathematics, e.g. geometry and harmonic analysis. The purpose of the paper is to find Kazhdan groups among automorphism groups associated to hyperbolic buildings. The main result is the following theorem. Let \(X\) be an \(n\)-dimensional building of thickness \(q+1\) associated to a cocompact hyperbolic group with a simplex as its fundamental domain. Let \(G\) be a unimodular subgroup of the simplicial automorphism group and suppose that \(G\) is closed in the compact open topology and acts cocompactly on \(X\). Then, for \(1\leq k\leq n-1\) and \(q\) sufficiently large, \(H^k(G,\pi) =0\) for every unitary representation \(\pi\). In particular, this leads to new families of Kazhdan groups in dimensions 3 and 4, arising from Kac-Moody buildings. An important tool used is Garland's method to establish the vanishing of cohomology groups of simplicial complexes.
- Cohomology of buildings and of their automorphism groups.
- Formules de Matsushima, de Garland et propriété (T) pour des groupes agissant sur des espaces symétriques ou des immeubles
- On \(L^2\)-cohomology and property (T) for automorphism groups of polyhedral cell complexes
- Kazhdan Groups, Cocycles and Trees
- Cohomology of buildings and of their automorphism groups.
- Curvature criterion for vanishing of group cohomology
- Group algebra criteria for vanishing of cohomology
- A fixed point theorem in \(L^p\)-spaces
- Automorphism groups of simplicial complexes and rigidity for uniformly bounded representations
- A sixteen-relator presentation of an infinite hyperbolic Kazhdan group
- Vanishing of cohomology and property (T) for groups acting on weighted simplicial complexes
- Kazhdan Groups, Cocycles and Trees
- Formules de Matsushima, de Garland et propriété (T) pour des groupes agissant sur des espaces symétriques ou des immeubles
- EXISTENCE OF LATTICES IN KAC–MOODY GROUPS OVER FINITE FIELDS
- Fixed point theorem for reflexive Banach spaces and uniformly convex non positively curved metric spaces.
- On Garland's vanishing theorem for \(\mathrm{SL}_n\)
- Stability, cohomology vanishing, and nonapproximable groups
- Żuk’s criterion for Banach spaces and random groups
- Garland's method with Banach coefficients
- \(n\)-Kazhdan groups and higher spectral expanders
- Property (T) for groups acting on simplicial complexes through taking an ``average of Laplacian eigenvalues
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