Ramanujan complexes and Golden Gates in PU(3)
Abstract
In a seminal series of papers from the 80's, Lubotzky, Phillips and Sarnak applied the Ramanujan-Petersson Conjecture for (Deligne's theorem), to a special family of arithmetic lattices, which act simply-transitively on the Bruhat-Tits trees associated with . As a result, they obtained explicit Ramanujan Cayley graphs from , as well as optimal topological generators ("Golden Gates") for the compact Lie group . In higher dimension, the naive generalization of the Ramanujan Conjecture fails, due to the phenomenon of endoscopic lifts. In this paper we overcome this problem for by constructing a family of arithmetic lattices which act simply-transitively on the Bruhat-Tits buildings associated with and , while at the same time do not admit any representation which violates the Ramanujan Conjecture. This gives us Ramanujan complexes from and , as well as golden gates for .
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@article{arxiv.1810.04710,
title = {Ramanujan complexes and Golden Gates in PU(3)},
author = {Shai Evra and Ori Parzanchevski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04710},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
To appear in Geometric and Functional Analysis