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Negative definite kernels and a dynamical characterization of property(T) for countable groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1998

GUYAN ROBERTSON and
TIM STEGER
GUYAN ROBERTSON
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia (e-mail: guyan@maths.newcastle.edu.au)
TIM STEGER
Affiliation:
Istituto di Matematica e Fisica, Università di Sassari, via Vienna 2, 07100 Sassari, Italy (e-mail: steger@ssmain.uniss.it)
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Abstract

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A class of negative definite kernels is defined in terms of measure spaces.Using this concept, property (T) for a countable group $\Gamma$ is characterizedin terms of measure-preserving actions of $\Gamma$, as follows. If a set $S$ istranslated a finite amount by any fixed element of $\Gamma$, then there is auniform bound on how far $S$ is translated.

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Type
Research Article
Information
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , February 1998, pp. 247 - 253
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

Footnotes

This research was supportedby the Australian Research Council.