BOUTONNET, Rémi; HOUDAYER, Cyril

doi:10.1007/s10240-021-00122-8

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BOUTONNET, Rémi
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]

HOUDAYER, Cyril
Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 [UPD5]

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Publications mathematiques de l' IHES. 2021

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We show that stationary characters on irreducible lattices $\Gamma < G$ of higher-rank connected semisimple Lie groups are conjugation invariant, that is, they are genuine characters. This result has several applications in representation theory, operator algebras, ergodic theory and topological dynamics. In particular, we show that for any such irreducible lattice $\Gamma < G$, the left regular representation $\lambda_\Gamma$ is weakly contained in any weakly mixing representation $\pi$. We prove that for any such irreducible lattice $\Gamma < G$, any uniformly recurrent subgroup (URS) of $\Gamma$ is finite, answering a question of Glasner-Weiss. We also obtain a new proof of Peterson's character rigidity result for irreducible lattices $\Gamma < G$. The main novelty of our paper is a structure theorem for stationary actions of lattices on von Neumann algebras.< Réduire