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| DOI : 10.4171/GGD/126 |
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| Groups Geometry and Dynamics 5, 2 (2011) 251-264 |
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| Lattices with and lattices without spectral gap |
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| Bachir Bekka 1Alexander Lubotzky 2 |
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| (2011) |
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| Let $G = G(k)$ be the $k$-rational points of a simple algebraic group G over a local field k and let $\Gamma$ be a lattice in G. We show that the regular representation $\rho_{\Gamma\setminus G}$ of $G$ on $L^{2}(\Gamma\setminus G)$ has a spectral gap, that is, the restriction of $\rho_{\Gamma\setminus G}$ to the orthogonal of the constants in $L^{2}(\Gamma\setminus G)$ has no almost invariant vectors. On the other hand, we give examples of locally compact simple groups $G$ and lattices $\Gamma$ for which $L^{2}(\Gamma\setminus G)$ has no spectral gap. This answers in the negative a question asked by Margulis [Marg91, Chapter III, 1.12]. In fact, $G$ can be taken to be the group of orientation preserving automorphisms of a k-regular tree for $k > 2$. |
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| 1 : | Institut de Recherche Mathématique de Rennes (IRMAR) |
| CNRS : UMR6625 – Université de Rennes 1 – École normale supérieure de Cachan - ENS Cachan – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) : - RENNES – Université de Rennes II - Haute Bretagne | |
| 2 : | Institute of Mathematics |
| Hebrew University | |
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| Théorie ergodique |
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| Domaine | : | Mathématiques/Systèmes dynamiques |
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| Lattices in algebraic groups – Tree lattices – Expander diagrams – Spectral gap |
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| Contributeur : Marie-Annick Guillemer | |
| Soumis le : Mercredi 9 Février 2011, 14:50:36 | |
| Dernière modification le : Vendredi 20 Janvier 2012, 14:21:02 | |