Spectral rigidity of group actions on homogeneous spaces

Bachir Bekka (1)

1 IRMAR - Institut de Recherche Mathématique de Rennes

Actions of a locally compact group G on a measure space X give rise to unitary representations of G on Hilbert spaces. We review results on the rigidity of these actions from the spectral point of view, that is, results about the existence of a spectral gap for associated averaging operators and their consequences. We will deal both with spaces X with an infinite measure as well as with spaces with an invariant probability measure. The spectral gap property has several striking applications to group theory, geometry, ergodic theory, operator algebras, graph theory, theoretical computer science, etc.

Mots clés: Ergodic group actions; co-amenable actions; spectral gap property; Kazhdan property

Domaines: Théorie des groupes [math.GR]; Systèmes dynamiques [math.DS]; Mathématiques [math]

Bachir Bekka. Spectral rigidity of group actions on homogeneous spaces. Ji, Lizhen; Papadopoulos, Athanase; Yau, Shing-Tung. Handbook of group actions. Vol. IV., 41, International Press, Somerville, MA; Higher Education Press, Beijing, pp.563-622, 2018, Advanced Lectures in Mathematics (ALM), ISBN 978-1-57146-365-4. ⟨hal-01270244v2⟩