A spectral gap property for random walks under unitary representations

DOI10.1007/S10711-005-9031-2MaRDI QIDQ2498415zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yves Guivarc'h, Bachir Bekka

Publication date 16 August 2006

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508195

zbMATH Keywords

Kazhdan property (T)random walkssemisimple Lie groupsspectral gapunitary representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) Dynamical systems and the theory of (C^*)-algebras (37A55)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a locally compact group and $mu$ a probability measure on $G,$ which is not assumed to be absolutely continuous with respect to Haar measure. Given a unitary representation $(pi,calH)$ of $G,$ we study spectral properties of the operator $pi(mu)$ acting on $calH.$ Assume that $mu$ is adapted and that the trivial representation $1_G$ is not weakly contained in the tensor product $$ We show that $pi(mu)$ has a spectral gap, that is, for the spectral radius $r_{mspec}(pi(mu))$ of $pi(mu),$ we have $r_{mspec}(pi(mu))<1.$ This provides a common generalization of several previously known results. Another consequence is that, if $G$ has Kazhdan's Property (T), then $r_{mspec}(pi(mu))<1$ for every unitary representation $pi$ of $G$ without finite dimensional subrepresentations. Moreover, we give new examples of so-called identity excluding groups.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a locally compact group and \(\mu\) a probability measure on \(G\), which is not assumed to be absolutely continuous with respect to Haar measure. Given a unitary representation \((\pi ,\mathcal H)\) of \(G\), the authors study spectral properties of the operator \(\pi (\mu)\) acting on \(\mathcal H\). Assume that \(\mu\) is adapted and that the trivial representation \(1_G\) is not weakly contained in the tensor product \(\pi\otimes \overline\pi\). It is shown that \(\pi(\mu)\) has a spectral gap, that is, for the spectral radius \(r_{\text{spec}}(\pi(\mu))\) of \(\pi(\mu)\), we have \(r_{\text{spec}}(\pi(\mu)) < 1\). This provides a common generalization of several previously known results. Another consequence is that, if \(G\) has Kazhdan's property (T), then \(r_{\text{spec}}(\pi(\mu)) < 1\) for every unitary representation \(\pi\) of \(G\) without finite dimensional subrepresentations. Moreover, the authors give new examples of so-called identity excluding groups.

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