Timeline for Steinberg Group as a Lattice in a lie group
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| Aug 22, 2012 at 0:02 | history | edited | Jim Humphreys | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2012 at 0:00 | comment | added | Jim Humphreys | @Alain: On further thought, I see that I was too hasty in my "answer", so I've edited most of it out. Sorry for the confusion. | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 21:54 | comment | added | Alain Valette | @Jim: I respectfully disagree: $SL_n(\mathbb{R})$ is NOT simply connected for $n\geq 3$ (it is homotopy equivalent to $SO(n)$), so its universal cover is precisely of degree 2, and therefore the answer for the Steinberg group seems to be affirmative. | |
| Aug 21, 2012 at 20:00 | history | answered | Jim Humphreys | CC BY-SA 3.0 |