The large-scale geometry of Hilbert modular groups

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214459217MaRDI QIDQ679307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Benson Farb, Richard Evan Schwartz

Publication date 1 September 1997

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214459217

zbMATH Keywords

Hilbert modular groupslatticesquasi-isometries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphic forms on (mbox{GL}(2)); Hilbert and Hilbert-Siegel modular groups and their modular and automorphic forms; Hilbert modular surfaces (11F41) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

Review text

Let \(G\) be the rank-2 semisimple Lie group \(PSL_2 (\mathbb R) \times PSL_2 (\mathbb R)\). If \(\mathcal O_d\) is the ring of integers in the real quadratic field \(\mathbb Q (\sqrt{d})\), then the associated Hilbert modular group \(PSL_2 (\mathcal O_d)\), regarded as a subgroup of \(G\), is an irreducible non-uniform lattice in \(G\). In this paper, the authors prove that there is a canonical isomorphism between the quasi-isometry group and the commensurator group of an irreducible non-uniform lattice in \(G\). Using this result, they determine the quasi-isometry classes of lattices in \(G\) and show that any finitely generated group that is quasi-isometric to an irreducible non-uniform lattice \(\Lambda\) in \(G\) is a finite extension of an irreducible non-uniform lattice commensurable with \(\Lambda\). They also prove that two irreducible non-uniform lattices in \(G\) are quasi-isometric if and only if they are commensurable.

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