Introduction to
Arithmetic
Groups
by Dave Witte Morris
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HERE for PDF file of the current draft.
Here are the chapters in the current version:
- What is a Locally Symmetric Space?
- Geometric Meaning of R-rank and Q-rank
- Introduction to Semisimple Lie Groups
- Basic Properties of Lattices
- What is an Arithmetic Lattice?
- Examples of Lattices
- SL(n,Z) is a lattice in
SL(n,R)
- Real Rank
- Q-rank
- Ergodic Theory
- Amenable Groups
- Kazhdan's Property (T)
- Margulis Superrigidity Theorem
- Normal Subgroups of Gamma
- Arithmetic Lattices in Classical Groups
- Construction of a Coarse Fundamental Domain
- Ratner's Theorems on Unipotent Flows
- Appendices:
- Assumed Background
- Which Classical Groups are Isogenous?
- Central Division Algebras over Number Fields
- A Quick Look at S-Arithmetic
Groups
This version was posted May 27, 2012, and has some new
chapters. It needs revision, but is fairly complete.
The Latex source files are available at http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0106063