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Publications and source records attributed to Yves Benoist.
For any homogeneous space of a noncompact semisimple Lie group $G$, we define an exponent with multiple interpretations from representation theory and group theory. As an application, we give a temperedness criterion for $L^2 (G/H)$ for any closed subgroup $H$ of $G$, which extends the existing ones of Benoist--Kobayashi for connected subgroups and Lutsko--Weich--Wolf for discrete subgroups.
On a cyclic group of prime order, the non-trivial Dirichlet characters together with their Fourier transforms have constant modulus outside 0 and vanish at 0. Answering a question of H. Cohn, we construct new functions with these properties. The proof relies on Floer homology. We also apply this method to the biunimodular functions problem.
In the first paper we proved that on the cyclic groups of odd order d, there exist non zero functions whose convolution square f*f(2t) is proportional to their square f(t)^2 when the proportionality constant is an odd algebraic integer of norm d whose both real and imaginary part are square roots of integers. We show here that the function f can be chosen to be equal to the conjugate of its Fourier transform.
The classical Fatou theorem identifies bounded harmonic functions on the unit disk with bounded measurable functions on the boundary circle. We extend this theorem to bounded harmonic maps.
This note contains a short proof of a classical result: any rational symplectic matrix can be put in diagonal form after right and left multiplication by integral symplectic matrices.
We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a pair of parabolic subgroups $P$ and $Q$ of $G=GL_n(\mathbb{R})$ such that the tensor product of any two unitarily induced representations from $P$ and $Q$ are tempered. We also give an $L^p$-estimate of matrix coefficients of the regular representations on $L^2(G/L)$ when $L$ is a Levi subgroup of $G$.
A critical value on an abelian group G of odd order d is a value $λ$ such that the functional equation f$\star$f (2 t) = $λ$f (t)^2 on G has a nonzero solution f. We construct many critical values by using abelian varieties with complex multiplication.
We prove that on the cyclic groups of odd order d, there exist non zero functions whose convolution square f*f(2t) is proportional to their square f(t)^2 when the proportionality constant is given by an imaginary quadratic integer of norm d which is equal to 1 modulo 2. The proof involves theta functions on elliptic curves with complex multiplication.
Let G be a complex semisimple Lie group and H a complex closed connected subgroup. Let g and h be their Lie algebras. We prove that the regular representation of G in $L^2(G/H)$ is tempered if and only if the orthogonal of h in g contains regular elements.
Let $G$ be a semisimple real Lie group with finite center and $H$ a connected closed subgroup. We establish a geometric criterion which detects whether the representation of $G$ in $L^2(G/H)$ is tempered.
We show that, in a weakly regular $p$-adic Lie group $G$, the subgroup $G_u$ spanned by the one-parameter subgroups of $G$ admits a Levi decomposition. As a consequence, there exists a regular open subgroup of $G$ which contains $G_u$.
We prove that a harmonic quasi-isometric map between pinched Hadamard surfaces is a quasi-conformal diffeomorphism.
Let G be a real semisimple algebraic Lie group and H a real reductive algebraic subgroup. We describe the pairs (G,H) for which the representation of G in $L^2(G/H)$ is tempered. When G and H are complex Lie groups, the temperedness condition is characterized by the fact that the stabilizer in H of a generic point on G/H is virtually abelian.
In a previous paper, we proved that a quasi-isometric map $f:X\longrightarrow Y$ between two pinched Hadamard manifolds $X$ and $Y$ is within bounded distance from a unique harmonic map. We extend this result to maps $f:Γ\backslash X\longrightarrow Y$, where $Γ$ is a convex cocompact discrete group of isometries of $X$ and $f$ is locally quasi-isometric at infinity.
We present the classification of positive harmonic functions on the Heisenberg group in the case of the southwest measure.
We prove that a quasi-isometric map, and more generally a coarse embedding, between pinched Hadamard manifolds is within bounded distance from a unique harmonic map.
Let $G$ be a semisimple real algebraic Lie group of real rank at least two and $U$ be the unipotent radical of a non-trivial parabolic subgroup. We prove that a discrete Zariski dense subgroup of $G$ that contains an irreducible lattice of $U$ is an arithmetic lattice of $G$. This solves a conjecture of Margulis and extends previous work of Hee Oh.
Let $M$ be a geometrically finite acylindrical hyperbolic 3-manifold and let $M^*$ denote the interior of the convex core of M. We show that any geodesic plane in $M^*$ is either closed or dense, and that there are only countably many closed geodesic planes in $M^*$. These results were obtained earlier by McMullen, Mohammadi, and the second named author when M is convex cocompact. As a corollary we obtain that when $M$ covers an arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold $M_0$, the topological behavior of a geodesic plane in $M^*$ is governed by that of the corresponding plane in $M_0$. We construct a counterexample of this phenomenon when $M_0$ is non-arithmetic.