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The regular and profinite representations of residually finite groups

Group Theory 2013-03-26 v2 Operator Algebras

Abstract

Let GG be a residually finite group. To any decreasing sequence S=(Hn)n\mathcal S = (H_n)_n of finite index subgroups of GG is associated a unitary representation ρS\rho_{\mathcal S} of GG in the Hilbert space n=0+2(G/Hn)\bigoplus_{n=0}^{+\infty} \ell^2 (G/H_n) . This paper investigates the following question: when does the representation ρS\rho_{\mathcal S} weakly contain the regular representation λ\lambda of GG?

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@article{arxiv.1204.1514,
  title  = {The regular and profinite representations of residually finite groups},
  author = {Jean-François Planchat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.1514},
  year   = {2013}
}

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