{ "id": "1607.05056", "version": "v1", "published": "2016-07-18T13:20:03.000Z", "updated": "2016-07-18T13:20:03.000Z", "title": "Mixing, malnormal subgroups and cohomology in degree one", "authors": [ "Antoine Gournay" ], "comment": "35 pages", "categories": [ "math.GR", "math.GT", "math.RT" ], "abstract": "The aim of the current paper is to explore the implications on the group $G$ of the non-vanishing of the cohomology in degree one of one of its representation $\\pi$, given some mixing conditions on $\\pi$. In one direction, harmonic cocycles are used to show that the FC-centre should be finite (for mildly mixing unitary representations). Next, for any subgroup $H