Nonarithmetic superrigid groups: Counterexamples to Platonov's conjecture

DOI10.2307/121131zbMATH Open0963.22005arXivmath/0005302OpenAlexW2134016960WikidataQ105596968 ScholiaQ105596968MaRDI QIDQ1585692FDOQ1585692

Authors: Hyman Bass, Alexander Lubotzky 

Publication date: 14 May 2001

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Margulis showed that "most" arithmetic groups are superrigid. Platonov conjectured, conversely, that finitely generated linear groups which are superrigid must be of "arithmetic type." We construct counterexamples to Platonov's Conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0005302

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zbMATH Keywords

latticerepresentationgroup of arithmetic typesuperrigid group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

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