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Free actions of free groups on countable structures and property (T)

Group Theory 2015-09-03 v2 Logic

Abstract

We show that if GG is a non-archimedean, Roelcke precompact, Polish group, then GG has Kazhdan's property (T). Moreover, if GG has a smallest open subgroup of finite index, then GG has a finite Kazhdan set. Examples of such GG include automorphism groups of countable ω\omega-categorical structures, that is, the closed, oligomorphic permutation groups on a countable set. The proof uses work of the second author on the unitary representations of such groups, together with a separation result for infinite permutation groups. The latter allows the construction of a non-abelian free subgroup of GG acting freely in all infinite transitive permutation representations of GG.

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@article{arxiv.1312.5140,
  title  = {Free actions of free groups on countable structures and property (T)},
  author = {David M. Evans and Todor Tsankov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.5140},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages. Minor changes to original version