Proper affine actions on semisimple Lie algebras

DOI10.5802/AIF.3026zbMATH Open1352.22009arXiv1406.5906OpenAlexW3124324580MaRDI QIDQ332202FDOQ332202

Authors: Ilia Smilga 

Publication date: 27 October 2016

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For any noncompact semisimple real Lie group $G$, we construct a group of affine transformations of its Lie algebra $mathfrakg$ whose linear part is Zariski-dense in $operatornameAdG$ and which is free, nonabelian and acts properly discontinuously on $mathfrakg$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.5906

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zbMATH Keywords

free groupaffine groupMargulis invariantdiscrete subgroups of Lie groupsAuslander conjectureflat affine manifoldMilnor conjecturequasi-translationSchottky group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20) Automorphisms, derivations, other operators for Lie algebras and super algebras (17B40) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Classical groups (algebro-geometric aspects) (14L35)

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