Groupes de Coxeter (notes de Stéphane Lamy préparées pour ses exposés)

Introduction

Immeubles

Contemplons la définition suivante d’immeuble :

Définition Un immeuble est un complexe simplicial \(\Delta\) obtenu comme union de sous-complexes \(\Sigma\) (les appartements) satisfaisant les axiomes suivants:

  1. Chaque appartement \(\Sigma\) est un complexe de Coxeter.
  2. Pour tout couple de simplexes \(A, B \in \Delta\), il existe un appartement \(\Sigma\) contenant les deux.
  3. Si \(\Sigma\) et \(\Sigma’\) sont deux appartements contenant des simplexes \(A\) et \(B\), alors il existe un isomorphisme \(\Sigma \to \Sigma’\) fixant \(A\) et \(B\) point par point.

Dans ces exposés on va introduire la notion de complexe de Coxeter, qui sont des complexes simpliciaux basiques qui serviront à contruire les immeubles.

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Critical exponents of invariant random subgroups (Arie Levit, joint work with Ilya Gekhtman)

This lecture is a presentation of the preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02995. It will concern discrete invariant random subgroups in isometry groups of Gromov-hyperbolic spaces. In the case of rank one Lie groups essentially all IRSs are known to be discrete, but in general this is a nontrivial assumption.

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Lectures on the Stuck–Zimmer Theorem


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Measured group theory (Uri Bader)


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This is a transcript of my notes from Uri Bader’s lectures. They may not always accurately reflect the content of the lectures, especially in places I did not put down everything that was said, and some comments or details might have been added by me. In particular the last section does not contain the proofs of the Ornstein–Weiss theorem, Dye’s theorem and Rokhlin lemma that Uri explained in his lecture.

  1. First lecture
  2. Second lecture
  3. Third lecture
  4. Fourth lecture
  5. Fifth lecture

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