Property (T) for groups graded by root systems

Ershov, Mikhail, Jaikin-Zapirain, Andrei and Kassabov, Martin (2011) Property (T) for groups graded by root systems. Preprint.

Abstract

We introduce and study the class of groups graded by root systems. We prove that if {\Phi} is an irreducible classical root system of rank at least 2 and G is a group graded by {\Phi}, then under certain natural conditions on the grading, the union of the root subgroups is a Kazhdan subset of G. As the main application of this result we prove that for any reduced irreducible classical root system {\Phi} of rank at least 2 and a finitely generated commutative ring R with 1, the Steinberg group St_{\Phi}(R) and the elementary Chevalley group E_{\Phi}(R) have property (T)

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