18.109 (2014)

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Is it true that a group satisfying Kazhdan’s property (T) cannot homomorphically map onto infinitely many simple groups of Lie type of rank 1?

It is known that a group which maps onto $\text{PSL}_2(q)$ for infinitely many $q$ does not have Kazhdan’s property (T) (see 18.108).

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