A Topological Realization of the Congruence Subgroup Kernel

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-97379-1_18MaRDI QIDQ5014833zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Scherk

Publication date 8 December 2021

Published in Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00080

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compactifications; symmetric and spherical varieties (14M27) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Homogeneous spaces (22F30)

Abstract: A number of years ago, Kumar Murty pointed out to me that the computation of the fundamental group of a Hilbert modular surface ([7],IV,$S$6), and the computation of the congruence subgroup kernel of SL(2) ([6]) were surprisingly similar. We puzzled over this, in particular over the role of elementary matrices in both computations. We formulated a very general result on the fundamental group of a Satake compactification of a locally symmetric space. This lead to our joint paper [1] with Lizhen Ji and Les Saper on these fundamental groups. Although the results in it were intriguingly similar to the corresponding calculations of the congruence subgroup kernel of the underlying algebraic group in [5], we were not able to demonstrate a direct connection (cf. [1], $S$7). The purpose of this note is to explain such a connection. A covering space is constructed from inverse limits of reductive Borel-Serre compactifications. The congruence subgroup kernel then appears as the group of deck transformations of this covering. The key to this is the computation of the fundamental group in [1].

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• The fundamental group of reductive Borel-Serre and Satake compactifications.

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