Arithmeticity, Superrigidity, and Totally Geodesic Submanifolds

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2021.193.3.4MaRDI QIDQ6315933arXivFDO

Authors Uri Bader, David Fisher, Nicholas Miller, Matthew Stover

Publication date 20 March 2019

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: Let $Gamma$ be a lattice in $mathrm{SO}_0(n,1)$. We prove that if the associated locally symmetric space contains infinitely many maximal totally geodesic subspaces of dimension at least $2$, then $Gamma$ is arithmetic. This answers a question of Reid for hyperbolic $n$-manifolds and, independently, McMullen for hyperbolic $3$-manifolds. We prove these results by proving a superrigidity theorem for certain representations of such lattices. The proof of our superrigidity theorem uses results on equidistribution from homogeneous dynamics and our main result also admits a formulation in that language.

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