Arithmetic groups and their generalizations : what, why, and how /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ji, Lizhen, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Providence, R.I. : [Somerville, MA] : American Mathematical Society ; International Press, c2008
Series:AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, v. 43
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction General comments on references Examples of basic arithmetic groups General arithmetic subgroups and locally symmetric spaces Discrete subgroups of Lie groups and arithmeticity of lattices in Lie groups Different completions of $\mathbb {Q}$ and $S$-arithmetic groups over number fields Global fields and $S$-arithmetic groups over function fields Finiteness properties of arithmetic and $S$-arithmetic groups Symmetric spaces, Bruhat-Tits buildings and their arithmetic quotients Compactifications of locally symmetric spaces Rigidity of locally symmetric spaces Automorphic forms and automorphic representations for general arithmetic groups Cohomology of arithmetic groups $K$-groups of rings of integers and $K$-groups of group rings Locally homogeneous manifolds and period domains Non-cofinite discrete groups, geometrically finite groups Large scale geometry of discrete groups Tree lattices Hyperbolic groups Mapping class groups and outer automorphism groups of free groups Outer automorphism group of free groups and the outer spaces