The algebraization of Kazhdan's property (T)

International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2006

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1283-1310

  Shalom, Yehuda ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bounded generation; Cohomology of unitary representations; Expanders; Finite simple groups; Property (T); Spectral gap; Stable range; Sum product phenomena

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED GENERATION; EXPANDERS; FINITE SIMPLE GROUP; PROPERTY (T); SPECTRAL GAP; STABLE RANGE; SUM PRODUCT; UNITARY REPRESENTATIONS;

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