Lattices in amenable groups

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Measurable group actions (22F10) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05) Homogeneous spaces (22F30)

Abstract: Let

G

be a locally compact amenable group. We say that G has property (M) if every closed subgroup of finite covolume in G is cocompact. A classical theorem of Mostow ensures that connected solvable Lie groups have property (M). We prove a non-Archimedean extension of Mostow's theorem by showing the amenable linear locally compact groups have property (M). However property (M) does not hold for all solvable locally compact groups: indeed, we exhibit an example of a metabelian locally compact group with a non-uniform lattice. We show that compactly generated metabelian groups, and more generally nilpotent-by-nilpotent groups, do have property (M). Finally, we highlight a connection of property (M) with the subtle relation between the analytic notions of strong ergodicity and the spectral gap.

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