On the difficulty of finding spines

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2018.01.007MaRDI QIDQ1701502zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cyril Lacoste

Publication date 26 February 2018

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03181

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We prove that the set of symplectic lattices in the Siegel space $mathfrak{h}_g$ whose systoles generate a subspace of dimension at least 3 in $mathbb{R}^{2g}$ does not contain any $mathrmSp(2g,mathbbZ)$-equivariant deformation retract of $mathfrak{h}_g$.

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