Free actions of free groups on countable structures and property (T)
Group Theory
2015-09-03 v2 Logic
Abstract
We show that if is a non-archimedean, Roelcke precompact, Polish group, then has Kazhdan's property (T). Moreover, if has a smallest open subgroup of finite index, then has a finite Kazhdan set. Examples of such include automorphism groups of countable -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 acting freely in all infinite transitive permutation representations of .
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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}
}
Comments
14 pages. Minor changes to original version