Amenability versus property (T) for non-locally compact topological groups

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7256zbMATH Open1394.22006arXiv1512.01572OpenAlexW2964333578MaRDI QIDQ4580362FDOQ4580362

Vladimir G. Pestov

Publication date: 15 August 2018

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

Abstract: For locally compact groups amenability and Kazhdan's property (T) are mutually exclusive in the sense that a group having both properties is compact. This is no longer true for more general Polish groups. However, a weaker result still holds for SIN groups (topological groups admitting a basis of conjugation-invariant neighbourhoods of identity): if such a group admits sufficiently many unitary representations, then it is precompact as soon as it is amenable and has the strong property (T) (i.e. admits a finite Kazhdan set). If an amenable topological group with property (T) admits a faithful uniformly continuous representation, then it is maximally almost periodic. In particular, an extremely amenable SIN group never has strong property (T), and an extremely amenable subgroup of unitary operators in the uniform topology is never a Kazhdan group. This leads to first examples distinguishing between property (T) and property (FH) in the class of Polish groups. Disproving a 2003 conjecture by Bekka, we construct a complete, separable, minimally almost periodic topological group with property (T), having no finite Kazhdan set. Finally, as a curiosity, we observe that the class of topological groups with property (T) is closed under arbitrary infinite products with the usual product topology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01572

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65) Topological transformation groups (57S99) Representations of general topological groups and semigroups (22A25)

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