Archimedean superrigidity of solvable S-arithmetic groups

Archimedean places arithmetic subgroups connected solvable groups over number fields solvable linear algebraic groups superrigid lattices superrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

Abstract: Let

G a

be a connected, solvable linear algebraic group over a number field~

K

, let

S

be a finite set of places of~

K

that contains all the infinite places, and let

h e i n t s

be the ring of

S

-integers of~

K

. We define a certain closed subgroup~

G O S

of

G a_{S} = p r o d_{v i n S} G a_{K_{v}}

that contains

G a_{h e i n t s}

, and prove that

G a_{h e i n t s}

is a superrigid lattice in~

G O S

, by which we mean that finite-dimensional representations

a l p h a c o l o n G a_{h e i n t s} o G L_{n} (e a l)

more-or-less extend to representations of~

G O S

. The subgroup~

G O S

may be a proper subgroup of~

G a_{S}

for only two reasons. First, it is well known that

G a_{h e i n t s}

is not a lattice in~

G a_{S}

if

G a

has nontrivial

K

-characters, so one passes to a certain subgroup

G S

. Second,

G a_{h e i n t s}

may fail to be Zariski dense in

G S

in an appropriate sense; in this sense, the subgroup

G O S

is the Zariski closure of~

G a_{h e i n t s}

in~

G S

. Furthermore, we note that a superrigidity theorem for many non-solvable

S

-arithmetic groups can be proved by combining our main theorem with the Margulis Superrigidity Theorem.

Review text

In his previous paper [Invent. Math. 122, No. 1, 147-193 (1995; Zbl 0844.22015)] the author proved that if \(G\) is a solvable linear algebraic group over \(\mathbb{Q}\), the arithmetic subgroup \(G_\mathbb{Z}\) is a superrigid lattice in \(G_\mathbb{R}\) provided it is Zariski dense. In the reviewed paper this result is generalized to \(S\)-arithmetic subgroups of connected solvable groups defined over a number field \(K\) under the assumption that \(S\) is a finite set containing all Archimedean places.

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