2009/07/08 by Inna, Capdeboscq, Anne Thomas +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · #20E08 #22E65 #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #FOS: Mathematics #Finite Group Theory Research #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Group Theory (math.GR)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0907.1350
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Let Λbe a minimal Kac-Moody group of rank 2 defined over the finite field Fq, where q = pa with p prime. Let G be the topological Kac-Moody group obtained by completing Λ. An example is G=SL2(K), where K is the field of formal Laurent series over Fq. The group G acts on its Bruhat-Tits building X, a tree, with quotient a single edge. We construct new examples of cocompact lattices in G, many of them edge-transitive. We then show that if cocompact lattices in G do not contain p-elements, the lattices we construct are the only edge-transitive lattices in G, and that our constructions include the cocompact lattice of minimal covolume in G. We also observe that, with an additional assumption on p-elements in G, the arguments of Lubotzky for the case G = SL2(K) may be generalised to show that there is a positive lower bound on the covolumes of all lattices in G, and that this minimum is realised by a non-cocompact lattice, a maximal parabolic subgroup of Lambda.