Questions tagged [property-t]
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How feasible is it to prove Kazhdan's property (T) by a computer?
Recently, I have proved that Kazhdan's property (T) is theoretically provable
by computers (arXiv:1312.5431,
explained below), but I'm quite lame with computers and have
no idea what they actually can ...
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What is the current status of the question of whether or not the mapping class group has Kazhdan's Property (T)?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Mod{Mod}$Let $\Mod(S)$ be the mapping class group of a closed oriented surface $S$ of genus at least $3$. My question is easy to state: is it currently known whether or not $\...
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On uniform Kazhdan's property (T)
For a finitely generated group $\Gamma$ and its finite generating subset $S$, the Kazhdan constant $\kappa(\Gamma,S)$ is defined to be
$$\kappa(\Gamma,S)=\inf_{\pi,v} \max_{g\in S} \| v - \pi_g v \|,$...
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Does anybody know if the Fourier algebra of SL(3,Z) has an approximate identity?
(Note to those who like to tidy LaTeX, or ${\rm \LaTeX}$: I kindly request that you don't put any LaTeX in the title of this question, nor change the bolds below to blackboard bold.)$\newcommand{\FA}{{...
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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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Kazhdan's property (T) for $\tilde{C}_2$-lattices
It is known that higher rank lattices have property (T) and also that lattices on 2-dimensional Euclidean buildings have property (T) provided the thickness $q+1$ of the building is large enough (...
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Properties (T) and (FA)
I have been thinking a lot recently about Property (T) and Property (FA) for discrete groups. I understand that the prior implies the latter, but not the other way around, and I have also seen one or ...
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Do discrete groups with property $(T)$ have "modest" subgroup growth?
I saw it conjectured at http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1994.1/Main/icm1994.1.0309.0317.ocr.pdf that "discrete subgroups with property $(T)$ may have modest subgroup growth." (Page 5, directly above ...
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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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Uniform bounds on Kazhdan constants in groups
Does there exist a finitely generated discrete group $G$ such that it has property (T), but for every $\varepsilon > 0$ there exists a generating set $S$ with the corresponding Kazhdan constant ...
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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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Kazhdan Property T of semisimple Lie groups
I am reading the paper [Margulis, G. A.; Nevo, A.; Stein, E. M.,
Analogs of Wiener's ergodic theorems for semisimple Lie groups. II.
Duke Math. J. 103 (2000), no. 2, 233–259] (MSN).
I want to ...
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Relative property (T) and normal closure
I am in a situation where a discrete, finitely generated group $H$ satisfies property (T), and was wondering if I was able to conclude anything about the pair $(G,H^G)$, where $G$ is a finitely ...
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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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