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Article Dans Une Revue Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics Année : 2011

Lattices with and lattices without spectral gap

Bachir Bekka
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Alexander Lubotzky
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Let $G = G(k)$ be the $k$-rational points of a simple algebraic group G over a local field k and let $\Gamma$ be a lattice in G. We show that the regular representation $\rho_{\Gamma\setminus G}$ of $G$ on $L^{2}(\Gamma\setminus G)$ has a spectral gap, that is, the restriction of $\rho_{\Gamma\setminus G}$ to the orthogonal of the constants in $L^{2}(\Gamma\setminus G)$ has no almost invariant vectors. On the other hand, we give examples of locally compact simple groups $G$ and lattices $\Gamma$ for which $L^{2}(\Gamma\setminus G)$ has no spectral gap. This answers in the negative a question asked by Margulis [Marg91, Chapter III, 1.12]. In fact, $G$ can be taken to be the group of orientation preserving automorphisms of a k-regular tree for $k > 2$.
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hal-00564631 , version 1 (09-02-2011)

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Bachir Bekka, Alexander Lubotzky. Lattices with and lattices without spectral gap. Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics, 2011, 5 (2), pp.251-264. ⟨10.4171/GGD/126⟩. ⟨hal-00564631⟩
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