Topological simplicity, commensurator super-rigidity and nonlinearities of Kac-Moody groups

DOI10.1007/S00039-004-0476-5zbMATH Open1056.22015arXivmath/0302107OpenAlexW2329416489MaRDI QIDQ1762661FDOQ1762661

Bertrand Rémy, P. Bonvin

Publication date: 11 February 2005

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide new arguments to see topological Kac-Moody groups as generalized semisimple groups over local fields: they are products of topologically simple groups and their Iwahori subgroups are the normalizers of the pro-p Sylow subgroups. We use a dynamical characterization of parabolic subgroups to prove that some countable Kac-Moody groups with Fuchsian buildings are not linear. We show for this that the linearity of a countable Kac-Moody group implies the existence of a closed embedding of the corresponding topological group in a non-Archimedean simple Lie group, thanks to a commensurator super-rigidity theorem proved in the Appendix by P. Bonvin.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0302107

zbMATH Keywords

commensuratorparabolic subgroupKac-Moody grouplinear groupstopologically simple group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65)

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