On the spectral theory of groups of automorphisms of S-adic nilmanifolds

DOI10.1017/ETDS.2023.39MaRDI QIDQ6198053zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Bachir Bekka, Yves Guivarc'h

Publication date 20 February 2024

Published in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15646

zbMATH Keywords

nilmanifoldsspectral theoryKoopman representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical aspects of measure-preserving transformations (37A05) Homogeneous spaces (22F30) Relations between ergodic theory and number theory (37A44) Relations between ergodic theory and harmonic analysis (37A46)

Abstract: Let $S=p_1,dots,p_r,infty$ for prime integers $p_1,dots,p_r.$ Let $X$ be an $S$-adic compact nilmanifold, equipped with the unique translation invariant probability measure $mu.$ We characterize the countable groups $Gamma$ of automorphisms of $X$ for which the Koopman representation $kappa$ on $L^2(X,mu)$ has a spectral gap. More specifically, we show that $kappa$ does not have a spectral gap if and only if there exists a non-trivial $Gamma$-invariant quotient solenoid (that is, a finite-dimensional, connected, compact abelian group) on which $Gamma$ acts as a virtually abelian group.

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