Property (T) and rigidity for actions on Banach spaces

group actions on Banach spaces higher-rank groups Howe-Moore theorem.invariant vectors Kazhdan's property (T)rigidity Serre's fixed-point property (FH)superreflexive topological spaces uniformly convex/uniformly smooth Banach spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) Other representations of locally compact groups (22D12) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) Kazhdan's property (T), the Haagerup property, and generalizations (22D55) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Algebraic ergodic theory, cocycles, orbit equivalence, ergodic equivalence relations (37A20) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65) Rigidity results (53C24) Group actions and symmetry properties (58D19)

Abstract: We study property (T) and the fixed point property for actions on

L^{p}

and other Banach spaces. We show that property (T) holds when

L^{2}

is replaced by

L^{p}

(and even a subspace/quotient of

L^{p}

), and that in fact it is independent of

1 l e q p < i n f t y

. We show that the fixed point property for

L^{p}

follows from property (T) when

1 < p < 2 + e

. For simple Lie groups and their lattices, we prove that the fixed point property for

L^{p}

holds for any

1 < p < i n f t y

if and only if the rank is at least two. Finally, we obtain a superrigidity result for actions of irreducible lattices in products of general groups on superreflexive Banach spaces.

Review text

Classically, a locally compact second countable group \(G\) has Kazhdan's property (T) when any unitary representation of \(G\), with almost invariant vectors, has automatically nontrivial invariant vectors. This is known to be equivalent to Serre's fixed point property (FH) for affine isometric actions on Hilbert spaces. The work under review undertakes a systematic study of analogue properties (T\(_B\)) and (F\(_B\)) where Hilbert spaces are being replaced by Banach spaces \(B\). The first part of the paper investigates relations between properties (T), (T\(_B\)) and (F\(_B\)) for general locally compact second countable groups when \(B=L^p (\mu)\), with \(\sigma\)-finite measure \(\mu\) on a standard Borel measure space \((X,{\mathcal B},\mu)\). They are summarized in the following two results: {\parindent6mm \begin{itemize}\item[I.] (T) implies (T\(_B\)) when \(B=L^p(\mu)\), \(1\leqslant p<\infty\), or \(B\) is a closed subspace of \(L^p(\mu)\), \(1<p<\infty\), \(p\neq 4,6,8,\ldots\), or \(B\) is a quotient space of \(L^p(\mu)\), \(1<p<\infty\), \(p\neq \frac{4}{3},\frac{6}{5},\frac{8}{7},\ldots\) Conversely, if (T\(_{L^p[0,1]}\)) holds for some \(1<p<\infty\), then (T) holds. \item[II.] (F\(_B\)) implies (T\(_B\)) for any Banach space \(B\). In the opposite direction, (T) implies (F\(_B\)) whenever \(B\) is a closed subspace of \(L^p(\mu)\), \(1<p< 2+\varepsilon\), where the constant \(\varepsilon=\varepsilon (G)>0\) might depend on the group \(G\). \end{itemize}} The second part is concerned with examples of groups that satisfy (F\(_{L^p}\)). It is proved that a large class of higher-rank groups \(G={\mathbf G}_1(k_1)\times \cdots \times {\mathbf G}_m(k_m)\) and their lattices have property (F\(_B\)) for all Banach spaces \(B\) mentioned in I. It is also conjectured that these groups should satisfy some analogous properties (\(\overline{\text{T}}_B\)) and (\(\overline{\text{F}}_B\)) for all superreflexive topological vector spaces \(B\). In this direction, two splitting results about uniformly equicontinuous affine actions on superreflexive spaces of topological group products \(G=G_1\times \cdots \times G_n\), and respectively of their lattices, are proved. The Appendix contains a generalization, proved by Y. Shalom, of the Howe-Moore theorem on the vanishing of matrix coefficients for unitary representations, to the situation of uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach spaces.

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