Deformations and rigidity of lattices in solvable Lie groups

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTT016zbMATH Open1287.22004arXiv1111.5589OpenAlexW3101825237WikidataQ115256504 ScholiaQ115256504MaRDI QIDQ5404501FDOQ5404501

Authors: Oliver Baues, Benjamin Klopsch 

Publication date: 24 March 2014

Published in: Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a simply connected, solvable Lie group and $Gamma$ a lattice in $G$. The deformation space $mathcalD(Gamma,G)$ is the orbit space associated to the action of $Aut(G)$ on the space $mathcalX(Gamma,G)$ of all lattice embeddings of $Gamma$ into $G$. Our main result generalises the classical rigidity theorems of Mal'tsev and Sait^o for lattices in nilpotent Lie groups and in solvable Lie groups of real type. We prove that the deformation space of every Zariski-dense lattice $Gamma$ in $G$ is finite and Hausdorff, provided that the maximal nilpotent normal subgroup of $G$ is connected. This implies that every lattice in a solvable Lie group virtually embeds as a Zariski-dense lattice with finite deformation space. We give examples of solvable Lie groups $G$ which admit Zariski-dense lattices $Gamma$ such that $mathcalD(Gamma,G)$ is countably infinite, and also examples where the maximal nilpotent normal subgroup of $G$ is connected and simultaneously $G$ has lattices with uncountable deformation space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.5589

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zbMATH Keywords

latticerigiditydeformationsolvable Lie group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Rigidity results (53C24) Solvable groups, supersolvable groups (20F16)

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