Isotropic nonarchimedean S-arithmetic groups are not left orderable.

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2004.07.015MaRDI QIDQ1887007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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