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Free abelian subgroups of $\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$

Does anybody know what is the biggest $r$ such that $\mathbb{Z}^r$ is isomorphic to a subgroup of $\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$? It cannot be bigger that the virtual cohomological dimension of $\...
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Normalizers of the principal congruence subgroups in $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Q)$

A question quite similar to this question. Let $n \geqslant 3$ and $m \geqslant 2$ be natural numbers and suppose that a matrix $A \in \mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbf Q)$ normalizes the principal congruence ...
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What are some properties of the leading eigenvalue of a product of inversions in mutually tangent spheres?

Let $S_1, \ldots, S_n$ be a collection of $n \geq 4$ pairwise tangent hyperspheres in $\mathbb{R}^{n-2}$ with disjoint interiors, and $\iota_i$ be the inversion in $S_i$. Viewing the conformal group ...
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Commensurator of a subgroup of matrices

Let $k$ be a totally real number field and let $\mathcal{O}_k$ denote its ring of integers. If $H$ is a subgroup of $\text{GL}(n, \mathbb{R})$ let denote with $H(k)$ and $H(\mathcal{O}_k)$ the ...
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Pointwise stabilizer of an apartment of the Bruhat-Tits building of $\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Q}_p)$

Denote by $X$ the Bruhat-Tits building of $\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Q}_p)$. Let $\Sigma$ be the fundamental apartment of $X$. Let $\Gamma=\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z}[\frac{1}{p}])$. We can prove that the ...
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