A cohomological obstruction to the existence of compact Clifford-Klein forms

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Abstract: In this paper, we continue the study of the existence problem of compact Clifford-Klein forms from a cohomological point of view, which was initiated by Kobayashi-Ono and extended by Benoist-Labourie and the author. We give an obstruction to the existence of compact Clifford-Klein forms by relating a natural homomorphism from relative Lie algebra cohomology to de Rham cohomology with an upper-bound estimate for cohomological dimensions of discontinuous groups. From this obstruction, we derive some examples, e.g. mathrmSO0(p+r,q)/(mathrmSO0(p,q)imesmathrmSO(r)) (p,q,rgeq1,q:extodd) and mathrmSL(p+q,mathbbC)/mathrmSU(p,q) (p,qgeq1), of a homogeneous space that does not admit a compact Clifford-Klein form. To construct these examples, we apply H. Cartan's theorem on relative Lie algebra cohomology of reductive pairs and the theory of epsilon-families of semisimple symmetric pairs.



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