Séminaire Géométrie et groupes discrets

Complementary Series for Hyperbolic Groups

by Prof. Adrien Boyer (IMJ-PRG)

Europe/Paris
Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane (IHES)

Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane

IHES

Le Bois Marie 35, route de Chartres 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette
Description

To sum up: We will define complementary series for hyperbolic groups and prove their irreducibility.

More precisely: The complementary series representations are a family of unitary representations that can be realized on the Gromov boundary of the hyperbolic group. They can be viewed as a one-parameter deformation of the quasi-regular representation arising on the boundary, "sometimes" approaching the trivial representation, in a certain sense. The starting point of this work is to find a suitable scalar product in order to unitarize the complementary series. Then, a spectral estimates combined with counting estimates enable us to prove an ergodic theorem à la Bader-Muchnik to achieve the irreducibility.

Joint work with Kevin Boucher and Jean-Claude Picaud.

Organized by

Fanny Kassel

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