The semisimple below-rank cohomology conjecture for super-reflexive coefficients

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Let GG be an SS-semisimple group of rank rr and let Γ<u001b[0mG\Gamma<u001b[0mG be an irreducible lattice, meaning that its projection to each simple factor of GG is dense. Let VV be a super-reflexive Banach space and let Γ→B(V)\Gamma\to B(V) be a linear isometric representation. The semisimple below-rank cohomology conjecture. There exists a Γ\Gamma-invariant subspace V0⊂VV_0\subset V on which the Γ\Gamma-action extends to a GG-action and such that, for every j<rj<r,

Hj(Γ,V)≅Hj(Γ,V0)≅Hj(G,V0),H^j(\Gamma,V)\cong H^j(\Gamma,V_0)\cong H^j(G,V_0),

where the left map is induced by V0↪VV_0\hookrightarrow V and the right map is restriction from GG to Γ\Gamma. In particular, if the Γ\Gamma-action on VV does not extend to a GG-action on any non-trivial subrepresentation, then Hj(Γ,V)=0H^j(\Gamma,V)=0. This extends the simple-group super-reflexive property (Tr−1)(T_{r-1}) conjecture to semisimple groups and predicts that all below-rank cohomology comes from the ambient group; it is explicitly open even in degree 11.

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Uri Bader and Roman Sauer, “Higher property T and below-rank phenomena of lattices”, arXiv:2511.20192 (2026).

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