Groups embedded quasi-isometrically in a Lie group (Q706610)

Let \(G\) be a semisimple Lie group with finite center and \(H\) a semisimple Lie subgroup of \(G\) with real rank one. If \(\Gamma\) is a finite type discrete subgroup of \(H\), it has been proved by M. Bourdon and M. Gromov that \(\Gamma\) is quasi-isometrically embedded in \(H\) if and only if \(\Gamma\) is convex-cocompact in \(H\). The author uses this fact to prove that the injection of \(\Gamma\) in \(G\) has a neighborhood in the space of morphisms of \(\Gamma\) into \(G\) which consists of discrete quasi-isometric embeddings. The proof relies on the construction of nice sets of generators for \(\Gamma\) and on the analysis of their action on the flag variety of \(G\).