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March 1, 2013 4:10 pm (Friday)

Commensurating Actions and Property FW

Yves de Cornulier, Universite Paris-Sud 11
Location: Stevenson 1432

A group has Property FW if every action on a set commensurating a subset fixes a subset at bounded distance. This is a combinatorial weakening of Kazhdan Property T (and strengthening of Serre's Property FA), which was characterized in a similar (measurable) fashion by Robertson and Steger. I will discuss Property FW in various contexts, and notably for lattices in Lie groups.