Reduction theory using semistability. II

arithmetic subgroup Borel-Serre completion cusps distance functions filtration inner products Lie algebra parabolic subalgebra semisimple algebraic group semistability of lattices symmetric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic forms over general fields (11E04) Classical groups (11E57) Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

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This paper extends the results of Part I [ibid. 59, 600-634 (1984; Zbl 0564.20027)] to the case of an arithmetic subgroup of any semisimple algebraic group G. The methods and results of the previous paper are assumed in the current one. A numerical notion of semistability of lattices endowed with metrics is used to construct distance functions to the cusps in the symmetric space X belonging to G, leading to a realization of the Borel-Serre completion of X as a proper subset of X. Of independent interest: (1) the description of X as a certain space of inner products H on the Lie algebra g of G; (2) a criterion for when an element of the canonical filtration of the \({\mathbb{Z}}\)-points of g (with respect to a given H) is a parabolic subalgebra of g, solely in terms of the slopes of the canonical filtration.

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