Arithmetic Groups of Higher ℚ-Rank Cannot Act on 1-Manifolds

DOI10.2307/2161021zbMath0818.22006MaRDI QIDQ4313321

Dave Witte Morris

Publication date: 16 November 1994

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2161021

zbMATH Keywords

central extensions; subgroup of finite index; continuous action; \(\text{SL}_ n(\mathbb{Z})\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57S25: Groups acting on specific manifolds

20H05: Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects)

22E40: Discrete subgroups of Lie groups

57S20: Noncompact Lie groups of transformations

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