Kazhdan's property (T), L2-spectrum and isoperimetric inequalities for locally symmetric spaces

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 116-133

  Leuzinger, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups; Isoperimetric inequalities; Kazhdan's property (T); L2 spectrum; Locally symmetric spaces; Rigidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037248423     PISSN: 00102571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000140300005     Document Type: Article

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