Quasi-flat representations of uniform groups and quantum groups

Abstract

Given a discrete group [Formula: see text] and a number [Formula: see text], a unitary representation [Formula: see text] is called quasi-flat when the eigenvalues of each [Formula: see text] are uniformly distributed among the [Formula: see text]th roots of unity. The quasi-flat representations of [Formula: see text] form altogether a parametric matrix model [Formula: see text]. We compute here the universal model space [Formula: see text] for various classes of discrete groups, notably with results in the case where [Formula: see text] is metabelian. We are particularly interested in the case where [Formula: see text] is a union of compact homogeneous spaces, and where the induced representation [Formula: see text] is stationary in the sense that it commutes with the Haar functionals. We present several positive and negative results on this subject. We also discuss similar questions for the discrete quantum groups, proving a stationarity result for the discrete dual of the twisted orthogonal group [Formula: see text].