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

MaRDI QIDQ6404670zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Narutaka Ozawa

Publication date 11 July 2022

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)

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.

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