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If $G$ is a group acting on a tree $X$, and ${mathcal S}$ is a $G$-equivariant sheaf of vector spaces on $X$, then its compactly-supported cohomology is a representation of $G$. Under a finiteness hypothesis, we prove that if $H_c^0(X, {mathcal S})$ is an irreducible representation of $G$, then $H_c^0(X, {mathcal S})$ arises by induction from a vertex or edge stabilizing subgroup. If $G$ is a reductive group over a nonarchimedean local field $F$, then Schneider and Stuhler realize every irreducible supercuspidal representation of $G(F)$ in the degree-zero cohomology of a $G(F)$-equivariant sheaf on its reduced Bruhat-Tits building $X$. When the derived subgroup of $G$ has relative rank one, $X$ is a tree. An immediate consequence is that every such irreducible supercuspidal representation arises by induction from a compact-mod-center open subgroup.
We study superstable groups acting on trees. We prove that an action of an $omega$-stable group on a simplicial tree is trivial. This shows that an HNN-extension or a nontrivial free product with amalgamation is not $omega$-stable. It is also shown that if $G$ is a superstable group acting nontrivially on a $Lambda$-tree, where $Lambda=mathbb Z$ or $Lambda=mathbb R$, and if $G$ is either $alpha$-connected and $Lambda=mathbb Z$, or if the action is irreducible, then $G$ interprets a simple group having a nontrivial action on a $Lambda$-tree. In particular if $G$ is superstable and splits as $G=G_1*_AG_2$, with the index of $A$ in $G_1$ different from 2, then $G$ interprets a simple superstable non $omega$-stable group. We will deal with minimal superstable groups of finite Lascar rank acting nontrivially on $Lambda$-trees, where $Lambda=mathbb Z$ or $Lambda=mathbb R$. We show that such groups $G$ have definable subgroups $H_1 lhd H_2 lhd G$, $H_2$ is of finite index in $G$, such that if $H_1$ is not nilpotent-by-finite then any action of $H_1$ on a $Lambda$-tree is trivial, and $H_2/H_1$ is either soluble or simple and acts nontrivially on a $Lambda$-tree. We are interested particularly in the case where $H_2/H_1$ is simple and we show that $H_2/H_1$ has some properties similar to those of bad groups.
In this paper, the notion of proper proximality (introduced in [BIP18]) is studied for various families of groups that act on trees. We show that if a group acts non-elementarily by isometries on a tree such that for any two edges, the intersection of their edge stabilizers is finite, then G is properly proximal. We then provide a complete classification result for proper proximality among graph products of non-trivial groups, generalizing recent work of Duchesne, Tucker-Drob and Wesolek classifying inner amenability for graph products. As a consequence of the above result we obtain the absence of Cartan subalgebras and Cartan-rigidity in properly proximal graph products of weakly amenable groups with Cowling-Haagerup constant 1.
We provide new examples of acylindrically hyperbolic groups arising from actions on simplicial trees. In particular, we consider amalgamated products and HNN-extensions, 1-relator groups, automorphism groups of polynomial algebras, 3-manifold groups and graph products. Acylindrical hyperbolicity is then used to obtain some results about the algebraic structure, analytic properties and measure equivalence rigidity of groups from these classes.
In this paper, we completely prove a standard conjecture on the local converse theorem for generic representations of GLn(F), where F is a non-archimedean local field.
We investigate a family of groups acting on a regular tree, defined by prescribing the local action almost everywhere. We study lattices in these groups and give examples of compactly generated simple groups of finite asymptotic dimension (actually one) not containing lattices. We also obtain examples of simple groups with simple lattices, and we prove the existence of (infinitely many) finitely generated simple groups of asymptotic dimension one. We also prove various properties of these groups, including the existence of a proper action on a CAT(0) cube complex.