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What are immediate applications of the classification of connected reductive groups?
After years of putting it off, I finally sat down, read, and understood the classification of connected reductive groups via root data.
That's a non-trivial theory! I'm hoping that now that I am done ...
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Best texts on Lie groups for number theorists
What are the most comprehensive textbooks on the structure of Lie groups and their infinite-dimensional representations if one is interested in their applications to number theory (so covering ...
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Irreducibility of root-height generating polynomial
The height $ht(\alpha)$ of a positive root $\alpha$ in a (finite, crystallographic) root system $\Phi$ is $\sum_{i=1}^n c_i$ where $\alpha = \sum_{i=1}^n c_i \alpha_i$ is its decomposition as a sum of ...
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orbits of automorphism group for indefinite lattices
I have a question about indefinite lattices.
QUESTION: Let $\Lambda\times\Lambda\rightarrow {\Bbb Z}$ be a lattice,
that is, ${\Bbb Z}^n$ with a non-degenerate integer quadratic form,
not necessarily ...
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sub-tori of a torus, generated by 1-dimensional subgroup
Ok the question is pretty dumb: suppose you have a torus $T^n=\mathbb{R}^n/\mathbb{Z}^n$ and a vector $\bar{v}=(v_1,\ldots,v_n)\in\mathbb{R}^n$.
Consider the torus $T_{\bar{v}}$ given by the closure ...
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What is miraculous about the mirabolic subgroup?
I recently asked this question about Euler subgroups and generalizing the automorphic theory of $\mathrm{GL}_n$ to a more general setting. My question here is more specific.
As mentioned there, the ...
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Concrete examples of noncongruence, arithmetic subgroups of SL(2,R)
A subgroup of $SL_2(\mathbb{R})$ is called arithmetic if it is commensurable with $SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$.
An arithmetic subgroup is called congruence if it contains a subgroup of type $\Gamma(N)$ for ...
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Can two rational rotations $F_2 = \langle A, B \rangle \to SO(3)$ efficiently approximate the $3 \times 3$ identity matrix?
Let $A,B$ be two rational rotations:
$$ A = \left[\begin{array}{rcc} \frac{3}{5} & \frac{4}{5} & 0 \\
-\frac{4}{5} & \frac{3}{5} & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 1 \end{array}\right]
\quad\...
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Algorithmic Borel finiteness for hyperbolic manifolds
It is a theorem of Borel that there is a finite number of arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds of volume bounded above by $V.$ Is there any algorithm (or hope of an algorithm) to actually construct all of ...
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Rational orthogonal matrices
``everybody knows'' that an integral orthogonal matrix is a signed permutation matrix, so there are exactly $2^n n!$ such matrices in $O(n).$ Now, what if we ask for the enumeration of elements of $O(...
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Why are there so few irreducible admissible representations of $\text{GL}(n,\mathbb{R})$ (up to infinitesimal equivalence)?
Studying Langlands's classification of irreducible admissible representations, I have been rather stunned by the following:
Theorem
Up to infinitesimal equivalence, all irreducible admissible ...
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what is the intersection of all congruence subgroups of the profinite completion of SL(2,Z)?
Let $\widehat{SL(2,\mathbb{Z})}$ be the profinite completion of $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$. Let $\Gamma(N)$ denote the typical principal congruence subgroup of $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ (ie, all matrices congruent ...
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Why are root data a natural candidate for classifying connected reductive groups?
For the purpose of this question, you may assume that we are working over the complex numbers.
Given a connected reductive group $G$, one can choose a maximal torus $T$, and then let $T$ act on the ...
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Borel's Paris Lectures
I am trying to read Harish-Chandra's book on automorphic forms on Semisimple Lie groups, and he keeps referring to Borel's Paris lecture notes. Does anyone have an online version of these notes or ...
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Principal congruence subgroups in higher rank
I don't seem to have seen any explicit generators for the principal congruence subgroups of $SL(n, \mathbb{Z}),$ for $n>2,$ although it is known (Sury+Venkataramana) is that the number of ...
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What is the structure of the group of rational points of an abelian variety over a Laurent series field?
Let $K = \mathbb{F}_q((t))$, and let $A_{/K}$ be a nontrivial abelian variety. Then $A(K)$ is a compact $K$-adic Lie group. What can be said about its structure?
By way of comparison, if $K/\mathbb{...
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Triple product formula on $K = \mathrm{SU}(2)$
Let $K = \mathrm{SU}(2) = \{ k[\alpha ,\beta] \mid \alpha ,\beta \in \mathbb{C}, |\alpha |^2 + |\beta |^2 = 1 \} $ with
$$ k [ \alpha , \beta ] =
\begin{pmatrix}
\alpha & \beta \\
- \...
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What matrix groups can be embedded in $Sp_4$?
In a joint paper with Yifan Yang we constructed an "exotic" embedding
of $SL_2(\mathbb R)$ in $Sp_4(\mathbb R)$ (in fact, of $PSL_2(\mathbb R)$ in $PSp_4(\mathbb R)$),
namely,
$$
\iota\colon\begin{...
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Derived subgroups of 2-adic congruence subgroups of $\mathrm{SL}_2$
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}$Let $p$ be a prime, and let $\Gamma_r$ denote the kernel of the map $\SL_2(\mathbb{Z}_p)\rightarrow \SL_2(\mathbb{Z}_p/p^r\mathbb{Z}_p)$.
Explicit formulas with formal ...
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number of irreducible representations over general fields
For a finite group, there are finitely many irreducible representations of complex numbers.
What if the field is changed to some other fields? Like real numbers, p-adic field, finite field?
In ...
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Multiplicity one theorem
I am reading Dorian Goldfeld's book Automorphic forms and L functions for the groups GL(n,R) (http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/mathematics/number-theory/automorphic-forms-and-l-functions-...
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$\mathbb{Q}$-forms of $\operatorname{SL}_4(\mathbb{R})$ inside $\operatorname{SL}_8(\mathbb{R})$
Let $\mathbf{G}$ be the image of the natural embedding of $\operatorname{SL}_4(\mathbb{R})$ inside $\operatorname{SL}_4(\mathbb{C})\subset \operatorname{SL}_8(\mathbb{R})$. Then $\mathbf{G}$ is an ...
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Relation between different $E_8$ matrices
There are several rank-8 square matrices known to be related to $E_8$:
Cartan $E_8$ matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E8_(mathematics)#Cartan_matrix
$$M_1=\left [\begin{array}{rr}
2 & -1 &...
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Is $\Gamma(p) := \text{Ker}(SL_2(\mathbb{Z}_p)\rightarrow SL_2(\mathbb{F}_p)$ a "standard" subgroup?
Let $\Gamma(p) := \text{ker}(SL_2(\mathbb{Z}_p)\rightarrow SL_2(\mathbb{Z}_p/p))$.
Viewing $SL_2(\mathbb{Z}_p)$ as an analytic group, is there a formal group law $F$ in three variables, defined over $...
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Can Galois conjugates of lattices in SL(2,R) be discrete?
Let $\Gamma$ be a lattice in $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$. Suppose that the trace field of $\Gamma$ is a totally real number field of degree $d$. This gives $d$ homomorphisms $\rho_i:\Gamma\to SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ ...
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Representation theory of Discrete Subgroups of Lie groups
My question is the following. Which representations of $Sp(2g, \mathbb Z)$ are extendable to representations of $Sp(2g, \mathbb C)$ or $Sp(2g, \mathbb R)$. Is there a general theory and a good ...
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Langlands correspondence of coverings of $\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb R)$ and modular forms with fractional weights
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}$Let $G \to \SL_2(\mathbb R)$ be a finite covering of degree $d \geq 2$. Then $G$ is a connected Lie group with semisimple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{sl}_2$ and ...
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Subgroups of $\mathbb{Z}^{n}$ with rotational symmetries
Schmidt (https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1077377618) showed that the number of $m$-dimensional subgroups of $\mathbb{Z}^{n}$ of covolume $\leq X$
is
$$c_{1}\left(m,n\right)X^{n}+O\left(X^{n-\...
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Computing a Commutator Subgroup
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}\DeclareMathOperator\SO{SO}\DeclareMathOperator\O{O}$I’m studying the group $\O(5,5,\mathbb{Z})$, the indefinite orthogonal matrices with integer entries. In particular, I ...
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Two definitions of automorphic forms on Lie groups
My question is the about the equivalence of two definitions of automorphic forms on a semisimple Lie group.
The most common definition of automorphic forms on a semisimple Lie group $G$ with respect ...
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What is a map for the representation theory of reductive groups?
I have finished learning about linear algebraic groups (minus their representation theory) and the associated algebraic structures (root data, root systems, etc.), and will next attempt to summarize ...
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Schur multiplier of a Chevalley group of type $D_5$
$\DeclareMathOperator\EO{EO}\DeclareMathOperator\SO{SO}\DeclareMathOperator\St{St}\DeclareMathOperator\Sp{Sp}$This is sort of a follow up question to my post here regarding the commutator subgroup of $...
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An easier reference than "On the Functional Equations Satisfied by Eisenstein Series"?
I'd like to learn about Eisenstein series so I started reading "On the Functional Equations Satisfied by Eisenstein Series"by Langlands.
http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/DigitalMathArchive/Langlands/pdf/...
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determining symplecticity (if that's a word)
Suppose you have a matrix $M$ in $SL(n, \mathbb{Z}).$ Question: is there a necessary and sufficient condition for $M$ to be conjugate to $N \in Sp(n, \mathbb{Z}).$ It is clearly necessary that the ...
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power log distance between matrices
In this thesis, Pedro Freitas discusses the properties of distance functions on matrices defined by $d_p(A, B) = (\sum (\log (\sigma_i(A^{-1} B)))^p)^{1/p}.$ Here $\sigma_i$ are the singular values of ...
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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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Subgroups of $Sp_{2g}$ giving rise to Shimura data
Consider the Shimura datum $(GSp_{2g},\mathcal{H}_g)$. Let $G$ be a reductive $\mathbb{Q}$-subgroup of $Sp_{2g}$. I want to know under what condition there exists a point $x\in\mathcal{H}_g$ such that ...
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Formal integration (?) in Chabauty’s method
In Mccallum, Poonen’s paper “The method of Chabauty and Coleman”,
the authors define, for the Jacobian $J$ of a geometrically connected smooth proper curve over the rational field and for $\omega \in ...
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Indefinite orthogonal groups over p-adics
Let $q$ be a rational quadratic form. How can we think of a Cartan decomposition of $O_q(Q_p)$? Is there a notion of Cartan involution for p-adic field, so that we can execute same process as we do ...
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Orbit representatives for the action of the maximal compact subgroup
Let $F$ be a non-Archimedean local field and $O$ be the ring of integers in $F$. Take $G=GL(2,F)$ and $K=GL(2,O)$. Consider the action of $K$ on $G$ by conjugation. Is it possible to explicitly write ...
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Recovering a $G$-valued representation/parameter
Number theoretic phrasing
Let $G$ be a connected reductive group over a characteristic $0$ field $F$. Associated to $G$ is its Langlands dual group $^{L}G$. For every dominant cocharacter $\mu$ of $...
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Miraculous Parahorics
Let $G$ be a connected simple group over a local field $k$. Let $I\subset G(\mathcal{O})$ denote an Iwahori subgroup of $G(k)$ with Lie algebra $\mathfrak{i}$. Let $P\supseteq I$ be any other ...
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Lie algebra of an elliptic curve
This might be a silly question, and if it has been asked somewhere else, I would appreciate a link; however, I was unable to find it myself.
In this paper by Lauter-Viray (arXiv link), in the proof ...
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Exponential analogue of formal connections
Let $F=\mathbb{C}((t))$. Let $G=GL_n$. Then $G(F)$ acts on $\mathfrak{g}(F)$ by gauge transformation:
$$
g.x:=gxg^{-1} + \dot{g}g^{-1},\quad \quad g\in G(F), \quad x\in \mathfrak{g}(F).
$$
Here, $\...
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Stabilizers of the action of Levi on abelianization of nilpotent radical
$\DeclareMathOperator\Lie{Lie}$Let $G$ be a simple connected reductive group over $\mathbb C$. Consider a parabolic subgroup $P=MU$ of $G$, where $M$ is a Levi of $P$ and $U$ is the unipotent radical ...
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A question regarding Lie group actions
Can you give me an example of a Lie group acting on a compact metric connected space transitively so that it has a closed finite index subgroup which does not act transitively?
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Fields of definition of parabolically induced representations of $\mathrm{SL}(2,q)$
Let $\alpha_0$ be the unique non-trivial character satisfying $\alpha_0^2=1$ of the split torus $\mathrm{T} \subset \mathrm{SL}(2,q)$ and denote by $\mathrm{R}(\alpha_0)$ the character of $\mathrm{SL}(...
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Sublattices in the standard integral symplectic lattice
Let $V$ denote $\mathbb{Z}^{2g}$ with its standard integral symplectic form $\omega = \sum_{i=0}^{g-1}dx_{2i} \wedge dx_{2i+1}$ (or, the homology lattice of a genus $g$ surface with its intersection ...
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generalization of the discreteness of Hecke groups to general reductive groups
Consider the subgroup $G_{\lambda}$ of $SL_2(\mathbb R)$ generated by $N_{\lambda} = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & \lambda \\ 0 & 1 \end{bmatrix}$ and $S = \begin{bmatrix} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 \end{...
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Actions of torsionfree discrete subgroups on hermitian symmetric domains
Let $D$ be a bounded hermitian symmetric domain with automorphism group $G(\mathbb R)$. In the example I have in mind, $D$ is Siegel upper half-space of degree $g$ and $G(\mathbb R) = \mathrm{Sp}(2g,\...
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