Volume and non-existence of compact Clifford-Klein forms

arXiv1511.09448MaRDI QIDQ6267906FDOQ6267906

Authors: Nicolas Tholozan 

Publication date: 30 November 2015

Abstract: This article studies the volume of compact quotients of reductive homogeneous spaces. Let $G/H$ be a reductive homogeneous space and $Gamma$ a discrete subgroup of $G$ acting properly discontinuously and cocompactly on $G/H$. We prove that the volume of $$ is the integral, over a certain homology class of $Gamma$, of a $G$-invariant form on $G/K$ (where $K$ is a maximal compact subgroup of $G$). As a corollary, we obtain a large class of homogeneous spaces the compact quotients of which have rational volume. For instance, compact quotients of pseudo-Riemannian spaces of constant curvature $-1$ and odd dimension have rational volume. This contrasts with the Riemannian case. We also derive a new obstruction to the existence of compact Clifford--Klein forms for certain homogeneous spaces. In particular, we obtain that $mathrmSO(p,q+1)/mathrmSO(p,q)$ does not admit compact quotients when $p$ is odd, and that $mathrmSL(n,mathbbR)/mathrmSL(m,mathbbR)$ does not admit compact quotients when $m$ is even.

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