Charmenability and Stiffness of Arithmetic Groups

arXiv2208.07347MaRDI QIDQ6407918FDOQ6407918

Publication date: 15 August 2022

Abstract: We characterize charmenability among arithmetic groups and deduce dichotomy statements pertaining normal subgroups, characters, dynamics, representations and associated operator algebras. We do this by studying the stationary dynamics on the space of characters of the amenable radical, and in particular we establish stiffness: any stationary probability measure is invariant. This generalizes a classical result of Furstenberg for dynamics on the torus. Under a higher rank assumption, we show that any action on the space of characters of a finitely generated virtually nilpotent group is stiff.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Algebraic ergodic theory, cocycles, orbit equivalence, ergodic equivalence relations (37A20) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) States of selfadjoint operator algebras (46L30) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10) Relations between ergodic theory and harmonic analysis (37A46)

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