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Is there a one relator group with property (T)?
Is there a one-relator group with property (T)?
That is, is there an $n > 2$, and some $x \in F_n$ (the free group on $n$ generators) such that the quotient of $F_n$ by the normal subgroup ...
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Residual finiteness of random groups with property (T)
A well known result of A. Zuk states that for $\frac{1}{3} < d < \frac{1}{2}$, a random group $\Gamma$ with respect to Gromov's density model with density $d$ has Kazhdan's property (T) with ...
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Strong converse of Kazhdan's property (T)
In his 1972 paper Sur la cohomologie des groupes topologiques II, Guichardet proved$^\ast$ that (non-abelian) free groups satisfy the following strong converse of property (T): The $1$-cohomology $H^1(...
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