Precompact groups and property (T)

DOI10.1016/J.JMAA.2013.03.004zbMATH Open1304.54060arXiv1112.1350OpenAlexW2964206546MaRDI QIDQ488654FDOQ488654

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

Publication date: 26 January 2015

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

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.

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

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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)

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