Superintrinsic synthesis in fixed point properties
Presenter
December 8, 2016
Keywords:
- fixed point properties
- property (T)
- property t
- expander graph
- bounded generation
- hyperbolic groups and generalizations
- Banach space
- group cohomology
- index theory
- non-commutative geometry
MSC:
- 37A15
- 19-xx
- 20-xx
- 43-xx
- 46-xx
- 57-xx
- 58-xx
- 20F65
- 46L80
- 20J06
- 43A07
Abstract
The following natural question arises from Shalom's innovational work (1999, Publ.IHES) on Kazhdan's property (T). ``Can we establish an `intrinsic' criterion to synthesize relative fixed point properties into the whole fixed point property without assuming `Bounded Generation'?'' This talk is aimed to present a resolution to this question in the affirmative. Our criterion works for ones with respect to certain classes of Busemann Non-Positively Curved spaces. It, moreover, suggests a further step toward constructing super-expanders from finite simple groups of Lie type.