Symmetric differentials, Kähler groups and ball quotients (Q2377343)

While Margulis' superrigidity theorem completely describes the finite-dimensional linear representations of lattices of higher-rank simple real Lie groups, almost nothing is known concerning the representation theory of complex hyperbolic lattices. This gives some motivation for studying complex hyperbolic lattices. The main result of this paper is a strong rigidity theorem for a certain class of cocompact arithmetic complex hyperbolic lattices. This may be regarded as the generalization of Rapoport-Zink's and Clozel's result in the case where \(n+1\) is prime. This result relies on the following two ingredients: one is Theorem 1.6 which showed that the representations of the topological fundamental group of a compact Kähler manifold \(X\) are controlled by the global symmetric differentials on \(X\), the other is an arithmetic vanishing theorem for global symmetric differentials on certain compact ball quotients using automorphic forms, in particular, deep results of Clozel on base change.