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Ramanujan complexes and Golden Gates in PU(3)

Number Theory 2022-04-19 v3 Combinatorics Group Theory

Abstract

In a seminal series of papers from the 80's, Lubotzky, Phillips and Sarnak applied the Ramanujan-Petersson Conjecture for GL2GL_{2} (Deligne's theorem), to a special family of arithmetic lattices, which act simply-transitively on the Bruhat-Tits trees associated with SL2(Qp)SL_{2}(\mathbb{Q}_{p}). As a result, they obtained explicit Ramanujan Cayley graphs from PSL2(Fp)PSL_{2}\left(\mathbb{F}_{p}\right), as well as optimal topological generators ("Golden Gates") for the compact Lie group PU(2)PU(2). 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 PU3PU_{3} by constructing a family of arithmetic lattices which act simply-transitively on the Bruhat-Tits buildings associated with SL3(Qp)SL_{3}(\mathbb{Q}_{p}) and SU3(Qp)SU_{3}(\mathbb{Q}_{p}), while at the same time do not admit any representation which violates the Ramanujan Conjecture. This gives us Ramanujan complexes from PSL3(Fp)PSL_{3}(\mathbb{F}_{p}) and PSU3(Fp)PSU_{3}(\mathbb{F}_{p}), as well as golden gates for PU(3)PU(3).

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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

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