Precompact groups and property (T)

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2013.03.004zbMATH Open1304.54060OpenAlexW2964206546MaRDI QIDQ488654FDOQ488654

Authors Salvador Hernández, M. V. Ferrer, Vladimir V. Uspenskij 

Publication date 26 January 2015

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1350

zbMATH Keywords

compact-open topologyrepresentationcompact groupprecompact groupdetermined groupKazhdan property (T)Bohr compactificationfell dual spacefell topologyPontryagin-Van kampen duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological groups (topological aspects) (54H11)

Abstract: For any topological group $G$ the dual object $hatG$ is defined as the set of equivalence classes of irreducible unitary representations of $G$ equipped with the Fell topology. If $G$ is compact, $hatG$ is discrete, and we investigate to what extent this remains true for precompact groups, i.e. for dense subgroups of compact groups. We find that: (a) if $G$ is a metrizable precompact group, then $hatG$ is discrete; (b) if $G$ is a countable non-metrizable precompact group, then $hatG$ is not discrete; (c) every non-metrizable compact group contains a dense subgroup $G$ for which $hatG$ is not discrete. This generalizes to the non-Abelian case what was known for Abelian groups. Kazhdan's property (T) can be defined in similar terms, but we must consider representations without non-zero invariant vectors rather than irreducible representations. If $G$ is any countable Abelian precompact group, then $G$ does not have property (T), although $hatG$ is discrete if $G$ is metrizable.

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