On the asymptotics of quantum SU(2) representations of mapping class groups

DOI10.1515/FORUM.2006.017MaRDI QIDQ5487096zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Michael Freedman, Vyacheslav Krushkal

Publication date 18 September 2006

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409503

zbMATH Keywords

mapping class groupbraid groupFell topologymetaplectic representationKazhdan property Talmost invariant vectorsQuantum representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42A38) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: We investigate the rigidity and asymptotic properties of quantum SU(2) representations of mapping class groups. In the spherical braid group case the trivial representation is not isolated in the family of quantum SU(2) representations. In particular, they may be used to give an explicit check that spherical braid groups and hyperelliptic mapping class groups do not have Kazhdan's property (T). On the other hand, the representations of the mapping class group of the torus do not have almost invariant vectors, in fact they converge to the metaplectic representation of SL(2,Z) on L^2(R). As a consequence we obtain a curious analytic fact about the Fourier transform on the real line which may not have been previously observed.

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