Free group representations: Duplicity and oddity on the boundary

Hebisch, Waldemar; Kuhn, Gabriella; Steger, Tim

doi:10.1090/tran/8546

Free group representations: Duplicity and oddity on the boundary
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Abstract:

We present a powerful theorem for proving the irreducibility of tempered unitary representations of the free group.

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