Volumes of symmetric spaces via lattice points

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Authors Henri Gillet, Daniel R. Grayson

Publication date 5 February 2007

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402085, https://eudml.org/doc/127687, http://www.emis.de/journals/DMJDMV/vol-11/16.html

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet serieslattice pointsTamagawa numbervolume

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphic forms, one variable (11F12) Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Tauberian theorems (11M45)

Abstract: In this paper we show how to use elementary methods to prove that the volume of Sl_k R / Sl_k Z is zeta(2) * zeta(3) * ... * zeta(k) / k. Using a version of reduction theory presented in this paper, we can compute the volumes of certain unbounded regions in Euclidean space by counting lattice points and then appeal to the machinery of Dirichlet series to get estimates of the growth rate of the number of lattice points appearing in the region as the lattice spacing decreases. We also present a proof of the closely related result that the Tamagawa number of Sl_k Q is 1 that is somewhat simpler and more arithmetic than Weil's. His proof proceeds by induction on k and appeals to the Poisson summation formula, whereas the proof here brings to the forefront local versions of the formula, one for each prime p, which help to illuminate the appearance of values of zeta functions in formulas for volumes.

Review text

It is shown how to use elementary methods to prove that the volume of \(\text{SL}_{k}(\mathbb R)/ \text{SL}_{k}(\mathbb Z)\)~is \(\zeta(2)\zeta(3)\dots\zeta(k)/k\). Using a version of reduction theory, we can compute the volumes of certain unbounded regions in Euclidean space by counting lattice points and using the machinery of Dirichlet series to get an estimate of the growth rate of the number of lattice points appearing in the region as the lattice spacing decreases. Some of the techniques used here were known to Siegel (1935--1937) in his investigation of representability of integers by quadratic forms. A closely related result that the Tamagawa number of \(\text{SL}(k, \mathbb Q)\) is 1 is also proved in a simpler and more arithmetic manner than the proof of Weil (1982)

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