Kazhdan sets in groups and equidistribution properties
Presenter
December 6, 2016
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
MSC:
- 22D10
- 22D40
- 37A15
- 43A07
- 46M05
- 19-xx
- 20-xx
- 43-xx
- 46-xx
- 57-xx
- 58-xx
- 46L80
- 20J06
- 43A07
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