Property (T) and the Furstenberg entropy of nonsingular actions

DOI10.1090/PROC/12685zbMATH Open1368.20061arXiv1406.4488OpenAlexW1509250317WikidataQ59926990 ScholiaQ59926990MaRDI QIDQ3450165FDOQ3450165

Lewis Bowen, Omer Tamuz, Yair Hartman

Publication date: 3 November 2015

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We establish a new characterization of property (T) in terms of the Furstenberg entropy of nonsingular actions. Given any generating measure $mu$ on a countable group $G$, A. Nevo showed that a necessary condition for $G$ to have property (T) is that the Furstenberg $mu$-entropy values of the ergodic, properly nonsingular $G$-actions are bounded away from zero. We show that this is also a sufficient condition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4488

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zbMATH Keywords

unitary representationproperty (T)Furstenberg entropynon-singular actionskew-product \(G\)-actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of groups (20F69) Measurable group actions (22F10) Entropy and other invariants, isomorphism, classification in ergodic theory (37A35) Nonsingular (and infinite-measure preserving) transformations (37A40)

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