Charmenability of twin building lattices

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Let Λ= 𝒢_A (𝔽_q) be a minimal simply connected split Kac-Moody group of compact-hyperbolic type, and set Γ=Λ/Z(Λ). We prove that Γ is charfinite when q≥ 11, or when its Weyl group is $3$-spherical and q≥ 4. Here are a few consequences: the only characters of Γ are the trivial and regular characters, every invariant random subgroup is supported on {e} and Γ and these are the only uniformly recurrent subgroups, and every nontrivial unitary Γ-representation weakly contains the regular representation. Our approach relies on a recent result due to Caprace and Thom, showing that the topological completions G₊ and G_- associated to Γ have the Howe-Moore property. We prove a criterion of charmenability for irreducible lattices with trivial amenable radical in products of Howe-Moore groups acting geometrically on proper hyperbolic spaces. The criterion requires the visual boundaries to be Poisson boundaries of suitable random walks and the corresponding lattice actions to be essentially free.

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@misc{houdayer2026charmenability,
  title = {{Charmenability of twin building lattices}},
  author = {Cyril Houdayer and Corentin Le Bars},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.23424},
  eprint = {2610.23424},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23424},
  note = {CC BY-NC-SA 4.0},
}

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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Charmenability of twin building lattices
AU  - Cyril Houdayer
AU  - Corentin Le Bars
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/16
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.23424
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23424
AB  - Let Λ= 𝒢_A (𝔽_q) be a minimal simply connected split Kac-Moody group of compact-hyperbolic type, and set Γ=Λ/Z(Λ). We prove that Γ is charfinite when q≥ 11, or when its Weyl group is $3$-spherical and q≥ 4. Here are a few consequences: the only characters of Γ are the trivial and regular characters, every invariant random subgroup is supported on {e} and Γ and these are the only uniformly recurrent subgroups, and every nontrivial unitary Γ-representation weakly contains the regular representation. Our approach relies on a recent result due to Caprace and Thom, showing that the topological completions G_+ and G_- associated to Γ have the Howe-Moore property. We prove a criterion of charmenability for irreducible lattices with trivial amenable radical in products of Howe-Moore groups acting geometrically on proper hyperbolic spaces. The criterion requires the visual boundaries to be Poisson boundaries of suitable random walks and the corresponding lattice actions to be essentially free.
ER  -

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