Deficiencies of Lattice Subgroups of Lie Groups

1997/10/09 by John Lott, Lott, John · 1 citation
Mathematics · #Advanced Algebra and Geometry #Advanced Operator Algebra Research #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #dg-ga #math.DG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.dg-ga/9710008

5 pages, AMS-Latex

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Abstract

Let L be a lattice in a connected Lie group. We show that besides a few exceptional cases, the deficiency of L is nonpositive.

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