On the existence of spines for Q-rank 1 groups

DOI10.1007/S00029-006-0029-XzbMATH Open1188.11026arXivmath/0601073OpenAlexW2062912502MaRDI QIDQ995995FDOQ995995

Authors: Dan Yasaki 

Publication date: 11 September 2007

Published in: Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let X=GammaG/K be an arithmetic quotient of a symmetric space of non-compact type. In the case that G has Q-rank 1, we construct Gamma-equivariant deformation retractions of D=G/K onto a set D_0. We prove that D_0 is a spine, having dimension equal to the virtual cohomological dimension of Gamma. In fact, there is a (k-1)-parameter family of such deformations retractions, where k is the number of Gamma-conjugacy classes of rational parabolic subgroups of G. The construction of the spine also gives a way to construct an exact fundamental domain for Gamma.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601073

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zbMATH Keywords

locally symmetric spacereduction theorycohomology of arithmetic subgroupsSpine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cohomology of arithmetic groups (11F75)

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