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Strong property (T) for higher rank simple Lie groups

Group Theory 2015-12-02 v2 Functional Analysis Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that connected higher rank simple Lie groups have Lafforgue's strong property (T) with respect to a certain class of Banach spaces E10\mathcal{E}_{10} containing many classical superreflexive spaces and some non-reflexive spaces as well. This generalizes the result of Lafforgue asserting that SL(3,R)\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R}) has strong property (T) with respect to Hilbert spaces and the more recent result of the second named author asserting that SL(3,R)\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R}) has strong property (T) with respect to a certain larger class of Banach spaces. For the generalization to higher rank groups, it is sufficient to prove strong property (T) for Sp(2,R)\mathrm{Sp}(2,\mathbb{R}) and its universal covering group. As consequences of our main result, it follows that for XE10X \in \mathcal{E}_{10}, connected higher rank simple Lie groups and their lattices have property (FX_X) of Bader, Furman, Gelander and Monod, and that the expanders contructed from a lattice in a connected higher rank simple Lie group do not admit a coarse embedding into XX.

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@article{arxiv.1401.3611,
  title  = {Strong property (T) for higher rank simple Lie groups},
  author = {Tim de Laat and Mikael de la Salle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3611},
  year   = {2015}
}

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33 pages, 1 figure

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