Geometry, Topology and Dynamics Seminar
David Fisher
Indiana University
Strong property (T) and invariant metrics
Abstract: Strong property (T) was introduced in 2006 by Vincent Lafforgue as
an obstruction to the Dirac-dual Dirac method of proving the Baum Connes
conjecture. It has also been used to prove cases of a conjecture of
Bader-Furman-Gelander-Monod on actions of higher rank lattices
on Banach spaces. I will discuss a new application of this property to
group actions on manifolds which plays a key role in recent progress on
Zimmer's conjecture.
Monday October 17, 2016 at 3:00 PM in SEO 636