Spectral rigidity of group actions on homogeneous spaces

zbMATH Open1412.22019arXiv1602.02892MaRDI QIDQ3119376FDOQ3119376

Bachir Bekka

Publication date: 11 March 2019

Abstract: Actions of a locally compact group G on a measure space X give rise to unitary representations of G on Hilbert spaces. We review results on the rigidity of these actions from the spectral point of view, that is, results about the existence of a spectral gap for associated averaging operators and their consequences. We will deal both with spaces X with an infinite measure as well as with spaces with an invariant probability measure. The spectral gap property has several striking applications to group theory, geometry, ergodic theory, operator algebras, graph theory, theoretical computer science, etc.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02892

zbMATH Keywords

spectral gap propertyKazhdan propertyergodic group actionsco-amenable actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measure-preserving transformations (28D05) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40)

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