Simple groups without lattices

DOI10.1112/BLMS/BDR061MaRDI QIDQ3115824zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Uri Bader, Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Tsachik Gelander, Shahar Mozes

Publication date 11 February 2012

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.2911

zbMATH Keywords

latticessimple locally compact groupstrees

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroups of symmetric groups (20B35) Groups acting on trees (20E08) Simple groups (20E32) Locally compact groups and their algebras (22D99) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

Abstract: We show that the group of almost automorphisms of a d-regular tree does not admit lattices. As far as we know this is the first such example among (compactly generated) simple locally compact groups.

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