Uniformly affine actions on Banach spaces: Growth of cocycles

Abstract

We investigate growth properties of cocycles with values in uniformly bounded representations on super-reflexive Banach spaces; this includes $L^p$-spaces for $1<p<\infty$ as well as Hilbert spaces. We then study the generalized Hilbert compression of cocycles arising in this setting for the property (T) groups $\mathrm{Sp}(n,1)$, $n\ge 2$, and establish the existence of uniformly Lipschitz affine actions with optimal growth.