Introduction to Arithmetic Groups
by Dave Witte Morris

Click HERE for PDF file of the current draft.

Here are the chapters in the current version:

  1. What is a Locally Symmetric Space?
  2. Geometric Meaning of R-rank and Q-rank
  3. Introduction to Semisimple Lie Groups
  4. Basic Properties of Lattices
  5. What is an Arithmetic Lattice?
  6. Examples of Lattices
  7. SL(n,Z) is a lattice in SL(n,R)
  8. Real Rank
  9. Q-rank
  10. Ergodic Theory
  11. Amenable Groups
  12. Kazhdan's Property (T)
  13. Margulis Superrigidity Theorem
  14. Normal Subgroups of Gamma
  15. Arithmetic Lattices in Classical Groups
  16. Construction of a Coarse Fundamental Domain
  17. Ratner's Theorems on Unipotent Flows
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