On finite extensions of arithmetic groups

DOI10.1016/S0764-4442(97)83545-8MaRDI QIDQ4385790zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fritz Grunewald, V. P. Platonov

Publication date 25 May 1998

Published in Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series I - Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0764-4442(97)83545-8

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic groupsconjugacy classes of finite subgroupsfinitely generated subgroupslinear algebraic groupssubgroups of finite index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20)

Review text

This note contains the statement (together with some sketch proofs) of a number of results in the theory of arithmetic groups. The authors begin with a definition of an arithmetic group, relative to a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-defined linear algebraic group, which is rather more general then the traditional one, originally due to Borel et al. They refer to a group of the latter type as a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-arithmetic group. They prove that every arithmetic group (according to their definition) is abstractly isomorphic to a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-arithmetic group. The note contains a number of results on overgroups of arithmetic groups. Let \(\Delta\) be a group which contains an arithmetic subgroup of finite index. It is shown that sometimes, but not always, \(\Delta\) is an arithmetic group. It is also shown that \(\Delta\) has only finitely many conjugacy classes of finite subgroups, which extends earlier results of Borel, Harish-Chandra and Serre. Finally, the authors consider how this conjugacy property extends to finitely generated subgroups of arithmetic groups. They construct an example of a finitely generated subgroup of \(\text{GL}(4,\mathbb{Z})\) which has infinitely many conjugacy classes of finite subgroups, which answers a question due to the second author.

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