Superrigid subgroups of solvable Lie groups

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-97-04147-6MaRDI QIDQ4372392zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors David Witte Morris

Publication date 11 December 1997

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9607221

zbMATH Keywords

lattices in solvable Lie groupssuperrigidity theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (22E25) Representations of nilpotent and solvable Lie groups (special orbital integrals, non-type I representations, etc.) (22E27) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

Abstract: Let $Gamma$ be a discrete subgroup of a simply connected, solvable Lie group~$G$, such that $A{d}_{G}Gamma$ has the same Zariski closure as $AdG$. If $alphacolonGammaoG{L}_n(eal)$ is any finite-dimensional representation of~$Gamma$,we show that $alpha$ virtually extends to a continuous representation~$sigma$ of~$G$. Furthermore, the image of~$sigma$ is contained in the Zariski closure of the image of~$alpha$. When $Gamma$ is not discrete, the same conclusions are true if we make the additional assumption that the closure of $[Gamma,Gamma]$ is a finite-index subgroup of $[G,G]capGamma$ (and $Gamma$ is closed and $alpha$ is continuous).

Review text

The author has earlier proved a superrigidity theorem for lattices in solvable Lie groups [\textit{D. Witte}, Invent. Math. 122, 147-193 (1995; Zbl 0844.22015)]. Let us recall that the original superrigidity theorem for semisimple groups was proved by \textit{G. A. Margulis} [Discrete subgroups of semisimple Lie groups, Ergebn. Math. Grenzgebiete, 3. Folge, vol. 17 (Berlin, New York 1991; Zbl 0732.22008)]. In the current paper, the author extends his earlier result to a discrete subgroup \(\Gamma\) of a simply connected solvable Lie group \(G\). He proves that \(\Gamma\subset G\) is superrigid if: (1) The Zariski closures of \(\text{Ad}_G (\Gamma)\) and of \(\text{Ad} (G)\) in \(\text{GL(Lie} G)\) have the same connected component \({\mathcal G}^0\) of identity and (2) \(\text{Ad}_G (\Gamma) {\mathcal G}^0 =\text{Ad}(G) {\mathcal G}^0\). The point here is that the discrete subgroup \(\Gamma\) in question need not be a lattice.

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