Special affine representations for hyperbolic groups

In this paper we extend the construction of special representations to Gromov hyperbolic groups which admits complementary series. We prove that these representations have a natural non-trivial reduced cohomology class $[c]$. An analogue of Kuhn-Vershik’s formula is established and as a by-product a characterisation of hyperbolic groups that admit complementary series. Investigating dynamical properties of the cohomology class $[c]$ we prove an cocycle equidistribution theorem 'a la Roblin-Margulis and deduce the irreducibility of the associated affine actions. The irreducibility of the affine actions associated to the canonical class $[c]$ is original even in the case of uniform lattices in $SO(n,1)$, $SU(n,1)$ or $S{L}_2({\mathbb{Q}}_p)$ with $n\ge 1$ and $p$ prime.