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Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics

Mar
21
2006

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics

Cartesian Products as Profinite Completions and Representation Growth of Groups
4:00pm|S-101

We prove that if a Cartesian product of alternating groups is topologically finitely generated, then it is the profinite completion of a finitely Generated residually finite group. The same holds for Cartesian products of other simple groups under...

Apr
04
2006

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics

Isospectrality and Commensurability
2:00pm|S-101

In previous work we showed that arithmetic hyperbolic 2-manifolds that are isospectral are commensurable. In this talk we discuss the proof of the generalization to dimension 3. We had previously shown that if arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds are...

Apr
18
2006

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics

Actions of Product Groups on Manifolds
Alex Furman
2:00pm|S-101

We analyze volume-preserving actions of product groups on Riemannian manifolds. Under a natural spectral irreducibility assumption, we prove the following dichotomy: Either the action is measurably isometric, in which case there are at most two...

Apr
25
2006

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics

Relative Property T in Lie Groups and their Lattices
Yves de Cornulier
2:00pm|S-101

A pair (G,H), where G is a group and H a subgroup, has relative Property T if every isometric action of G on a Hilbert space has a H-fixed point. In a connected Lie group or a lattice G, we characterize subgroups H such that (G,H) has relative...

May
02
2006

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics

Almost Normal Subgroups of Lattices
George Willis
2:00pm|S-101

Let $G$ be a simple $G(\mathbf Q)$-group of $G(\mathbf Q)$-rank at least 2. In 1987 T. N. Venkataramana showed that if $\Gamma \subset G(\mathbf Z)$ is an infinite subgroup whose commensurator is a subgroup of finite index in $G(\mathbf Z)$, then $...

May
23
2006

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics

On Margulis' Normal Subgroup Theorem
2:00pm|West Building Lecture Theatre

In joint work with Yehuda Shalom, we have proved Margulis' Normal Subgroup Theorem for any discrete subgroup $\Gamma$ of the automorphism group of a locally finite $A_2$-tilde building, $B$, provided that the quotient of $B$ by $\Gamma$ is compact...

Lie Groups, Representations and Discrete Mathematics Workshop