Local quaternionic rigidity for complex hyperbolic lattices

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Abstract: Let GammastackrelihookrightarrowL be a lattice in the real simple Lie group L. If L is of rank at least 2 (respectively locally isomorphic to Sp(n,1)) any unbounded morphism ho:GammalongrightarrowG into a simple real Lie group G essentially extends to a Lie morphism hoL:LlongrightarrowG (Margulis's superrigidity theorem, respectively Corlette's theorem). In particular any such morphism is infinitesimally, thus locally, rigid. On the other hand, for L=SU(n,1), even morphisms of the form ho:GammastackrelihookrightarrowLlongrightarrowG are not infinitesimally rigid in general. Almost nothing is known about their local rigidity. In this paper we prove that any {em cocompact} lattice Gamma in SU(n,1) is essentially locally rigid (while in general not infinitesimally rigid) in the quaternionic groups Sp(n,1), SU(2n,2) or SO(4n,4) (for the natural sequence of embeddings SU(n,1)subsetSp(n,1)subsetSU(2n,2)subsetSO(4n,4)).











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