Lattices with and lattices without spectral gap

DOI10.4171/GGD/126zbMATH Open1239.22003arXiv0909.1006MaRDI QIDQ664231FDOQ664231

Authors: Alexander Lubotzky, Bachir Bekka 

Publication date: 29 February 2012

Published in: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The following two results are shown. 1) Let $G$ be the $k$-rational points of a simple algebraic group over a local field $k$ and let $H$ be a lattice in $G.$ Then the regular representation of $G$ on $L^2(G/H)$ has a spectral gap (that is, there are no almost invariant unit vectors in the subspace of functions in $L^2(G/H)$ with zero mean). 2) There exist locally compact simple groups $G$ and lattices $H$ for which $L^2(G/H)$ has no spectral gap. This answers in the negative a question asked by Margulis. In fact, $G$ can be taken to be the group of orientation preserving automorphisms of a $k$-regular tree for $k>2.$

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1006

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zbMATH Keywords

automorphism groups of treesspectral gap propertyexpander diagramslattices in algebraic groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40)

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