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New Kazhdan groups

Group Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

The group of simplicial automorphisms of a Tits-Kac-Moody ininite building of thickness q associated to a cocompact reflexion group with fundamental domain a simplex, is Kazhdan for q sufficiently large. Thus we obtain families of new Kazhdan groups: two in dimension 3 and one in dimension 4. The proof uses continuos cohomology, in particular a lemma of Borel-Wallach, and Garland's vanishing method.

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@article{arxiv.math/9905025,
  title  = {New Kazhdan groups},
  author = {Jan Dymara and Tadeusz Januszkiewicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9905025},
  year   = {2007}
}

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