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Kazhdan sets in groups and equidistribution properties

Amenability, coarse embeddability and fixed point properties December 06, 2016 - December 09, 2016

December 06, 2016 (02:00 PM PST - 03:00 PM PST)
Speaker(s): Catalin Badea (Université de Lille I (Sciences et Techniques de Lille Flandres Artois))
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium
Tags/Keywords

  • Kazhdan sets

  • equidistribution properties

  • Amenability

  • a-T-menability

  • fixed point properties

  • hyperbolic groups

  • group cohomology

  • Banach space

  • index theory

  • non-commutative geometry

  • expander graph

Primary Mathematics Subject Classification
Secondary Mathematics Subject Classification No Secondary AMS MSC
Video

14640
Abstract

We will present some results about Kazhdan sets in topological groups using functional and harmonic analysis methods. We will discuss in particular a question, raised by Shalom, about Kazhdan sets and equidistribution properties. This is joint work with Sophie Grivaux
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