Spherical functions and rapid decay for hyperbolic groups

arXiv1812.10753MaRDI QIDQ6311682FDOQ6311682

Authors: Adrien Boyer 

Publication date: 27 December 2018

Abstract: We investigate properties of some spherical fonctions defined on hyperbolic groups using boundary representations on the Gromov boundary endowed with the Patterson-Sullivan measure class. We prove sharp decay estimates for spherical functions as well as spectral inequalities associated with boundary representations. This point of view on the boundary allows us to view the so-called emph{property RD} (also called emph{Haagerup's inequality}) as a particular case of a more general behavior of spherical functions on hyperbolic groups. In particular, we give a constructive proof using a boundary unitary representation of a result due to de la Harpe and Jolissaint asserting that hyperbolic groups satisfy emph{property RD}. Finally, we prove that the family of boundary representations studied in this paper, which can be regarded as a one parameter deformation of the boundary unitary representation, are slow growth representations acting on a Hilbert space admitting a proper $1$-cocycle.

This page was built for publication: Spherical functions and rapid decay for hyperbolic groups

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6311682)