Deformations and rigidity of lattices in solvable Lie groups

Details Deformations and rigidity of lattices in solvable Lie groups Deformations and rigidity of lattices in solvable Lie groups

2011-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/1111.5589v1

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Let $G$ be a simply connected, solvable Lie group and $\Gamma$ a lattice in $G$. The deformation space $\mathcal{D}(\Gamma,G)$ is the orbit space associated to the action of $\Aut(G)$ on the space $\mathcal{X}(\Gamma,G)$ of all lattice embeddings of $\Gamma$ into $G$. Our main result generalises the classical rigidity theorems of Mal'tsev and Sait\^o for lattices in nilpotent Lie groups and in solvable Lie groups of real type. We prove that the deformation space of every Zariski-dense lattice $\Gamma$ in $G$ is finite and Hausdorff, provided that the maximal nilpotent normal subgroup of $G$ is connected. This implies that every lattice in a solvable Lie group virtually embeds as a Zariski-dense lattice with finite deformation space. We give examples of solvable Lie groups $G$ which admit Zariski-dense lattices $\Gamma$ such that $\mathcal{D}(\Gamma,G)$ is countably infinite, and also examples where the maximal nilpotent normal subgroup of $G$ is connected and simultaneously $G$ has lattices with uncountable deformation space.

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