Isotropic nonarchimedean S-arithmetic groups are not left orderable.

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2004.07.015zbMATH Open1060.20041arXivmath/0405536OpenAlexW2092066843MaRDI QIDQ1887007FDOQ1887007

Authors: L. Lifschitz, David Witte Morris 

Publication date: 23 November 2004

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

Abstract: Let A = Z[c], where c is an irrational number whose square is rational, or let A = Z[1/r], where r > 1 is a square-free natural number. We show that no finite-index subgroup of SL(2,A) is left orderable. (Equivalently, these subgroups have no nontrivial orientation-preserving actions on the real line.) This implies that if G is an isotropic F-simple algebraic group over an algebraic number field F, then no nonarchimedean S-arithmetic subgroup of G is left orderable. Our proofs are based on the fact, proved by B.Liehl, that every element of SL(2,A) is a product of a bounded number of elementary matrices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0405536

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zbMATH Keywords

subgroups of finite indexsimple algebraic groupsalgebraic number fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical groups (11E57) Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F60) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30)

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