Real projective structures on Riemann surfaces
Relative property (T) has recently been used to show the existence of a variety of new rigidity phenomena, for example in von Neumann algebras and the study of orbit-equivalence relations. However, until recently there were few examples of group pairs with relative property (T) available through the literature. This motivated the following result: A finitely generated group admits a special linear representation with non-amenable -Zariski closure if and only if it acts on an Abelian group (of...
Let be a group and the number of its -dimensional irreducible complex representations. We define and study the associated representation zeta function . When is an arithmetic group satisfying the congruence subgroup property then has an “Euler factorization”. The “factor at infinity” is sometimes called the “Witten zeta function” counting the rational representations of an algebraic group. For these we determine precisely the abscissa of convergence. The local factor at a finite place...
When is a real hyperbolic manifold, it is already known that if the critical exponent is small enough then some cohomology spaces and some spaces of harmonic forms vanish. In this paper, we show rigidity results in the borderline case of these vanishing results.