A substitute for Kazhdan's property (T) for universal non-lattices

arXiv2207.05272MaRDI QIDQ6404670FDOQ6404670

Authors: Narutaka Ozawa 

Publication date: 11 July 2022

Abstract: The well-known theorem of Shalom--Vaserstein and Ershov--Jaikin-Zapirain states that the group $mathrm{EL}_n(mathcalR)$, generated by elementary matrices over a finitely generated commutative ring $mathcalR$, has Kazhdan's property (T) as soon as $ngeq3$. This is no longer true if the ring $mathcalR$ is replaced by a commutative rng (a ring but without the identity) due to nilpotent quotients $mathrm{EL}_n(mathcalR/mathcal{R}^k)$. In this paper, we prove that even in such a case the group $mathrm{EL}_n(mathcalR)$ satisfies a certain property that can substitute property (T), provided that $n$ is large enough.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) Group algebras of locally compact groups (22D15) Other ``noncommutative mathematics based on (C^*)-algebra theory (46L89)

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