Nonarithmetic superrigid groups: Counterexamples to Platonov's conjecture

DOI10.2307/121131MaRDI QIDQ1585692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hyman Bass, Alexander Lubotzky

Publication date 14 May 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0005302, https://eudml.org/doc/121008, http://www.math.princeton.edu/~annals/issues/2000/151_3.html

zbMATH Keywords

latticerepresentationgroup of arithmetic typesuperrigid group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

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.

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