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Property $(T)$ for $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z}) \ltimes \mathbb{Z}^2$
(This is in part a request for references and in part a somewhat pedagogical question.)
I gave a course on expanders seven years ago, and I am giving a course on expanders again now. We will soon do ...
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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(...