Closures of totally geodesic immersions into locally symmetric spaces of noncompact type (Q4226294)

In the paper under review, recent results concerning totally geodesic immersions into locally symmetric spaces of noncompact type are presented. Let \(M\) be a locally symmetric space of noncompact type. Let \(G\) be the connected component of the identity in the isometry group of its universal cover \(\widetilde{M}\), and let \(G\) act on \(M\) from the right. The main result of this paper is the following theorem. Let \(\Phi\) be a totally geodesic immersion of a connected locally symmetric space of noncompact type \(N\) into a connected locally symmetric space \(M\) of noncompact type with finite volume. Then the closure in \(M\) of \(\Phi (N)\) is an immersed submanifold of \(M\) of the form \(p(\widetilde{x} H)\), where \(p : \widetilde{M} \rightarrow M\) is the covering map, \(\widetilde{x}\) is a point in \(\widetilde{M}\) and \(\widetilde{x} H\) is the orbit of \(\widetilde{x}\) under a subgroup \(H\) of \(G\). If, in addition, the rank of \(N\) is equal to the rank of \(M\), then the closure of \(\Phi(N)\) is a totally geodesic submanifold of \(M\).