Generic subgroups of Lie groups (Q5952748)

The author investigates generic subgroups of Lie groups. He solves the following problem: Given a Lie group \(G\) and a natural number \(n\), when is it true, that \(n\) generically choosen elements \(g_1,\dots,g_n\) will generate a discrete subgroup of \(G\)? Basic notation: \[ \Delta_n(G)= \bigl\{(g_1, \dots, g_n) \in G^n:\langle g_1,\dots, g_n\rangle \text{ is a discrete subgroup of }G \bigr\}. \] The main results discuss the compactness respectively the non-compactness of Cartan subgroups in connection with the measure of \(\Delta_n\) and \(G^n\setminus \Delta_n\) for \(n=1\) and \(n>1\) (with respect to the product measure of the Haar measure of \(G)\). The author also derives some related results concerning the density of generic subgroups on connected semisimple linear algebraic groups and connected semisimple real Lie groups.