Chennai Mathematical Institute

Seminars




Cocompact lattices in semisimple groups
Prof. M.S. Raghunathan
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
28-07-05


Abstract

In this talk I will outline Minkowski reduction for SL(n) and the Mahler and Godement criteria for co-compactness. Using these I will show the existence of cocompact arithmetic subgroups in semisimple groups.