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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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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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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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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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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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