Local spectral gap in simple Lie groups and applications

DOI10.1007/S00222-016-0699-8MaRDI QIDQ2356910zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rémi Boutonnet, Adrian Ioana, Alireza Salehi Golsefidy

Publication date 7 June 2017

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06473

zbMATH Keywords

local spectral gapmeasure preserving actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Measure-preserving transformations (28D05) Harmonic analysis on specific compact groups (43A75)

Abstract: We introduce a novel notion of {it local spectral gap} for general, possibly infinite, measure preserving actions. We establish local spectral gap for the left translation action $GammacurvearrowrightG$, whenever $Gamma$ is a dense subgroup generated by algebraic elements of an arbitrary connected simple Lie group $G$. This extends to the non-compact setting recent works of Bourgain and Gamburd cite{BG06,BG10}, and Benoist and de Saxc'{e} cite{BdS14}. We present several applications to the Banach-Ruziewicz problem, orbit equivalence rigidity, continuous and monotone expanders, and bounded random walks on $G$. In particular, we prove that, up to a multiplicative constant, the Haar measure is the unique $Gamma$-invariant finitely additive measure defined on all bounded measurable subsets of $G$.

Review text

One of the main motivations for this paper is to identify analogues of the results by \textit{J. Bourgain} and \textit{A. Gamburd} [ibid. 171, No. 1, 83--121 (2008; Zbl 1135.22010); J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 14, No. 5, 1455--1511 (2012; Zbl 1254.43010)] and \textit{Y. Benoist} and \textit{N. de Saxcé} [Invent. Math. 205, No. 2, 337--361 (2016; Zbl 1357.22003)] that apply to general simple Lie groups. By analogy with the compact case, the authors introduce a notion of spectral gap for infinite measure preserving actions, which in the case of left translation actions on locally compact groups, implies a uniqueness property for its left Haar measures as finitely additive measures. Applications are given to the Banach-Ruziewicz problem, orbit equivalence rigidity, continuous and monotone expanders, and bounded random walks.

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