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Central isogeny, Shimura varieties and exceptional cases
For a simple complex Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$, its weight lattice is not equal to the root lattice (i.e. the center of its simply connected form is a non-trivial finite group) iff $\mathfrak g$ is of ...
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Are the automorphism groups of simple symmetric cones algebraic groups?
This question arises when I tried to understand Chapter 2 of the celebrated book "Smooth compactification of locally symmetric varieties" by Ash–Mumford–Rapoport–Tai.
The setting is as ...
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Functoriality for compactifications of locally symmetric spaces
Let $X$ be a symmetric space associated to an algebraic group $G$ defined over $\mathbb{Q}$ and $G(\mathbb{R})$ acts on $X$ from the left. Let $\Gamma \subset G(\mathbb{Q})$ be an arithmetic subgroup ...
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Relationship between fans and root data
A (split) reductive linear algebraic group is equivalently described by combinatorial information called a root datum.
A toric variety is described by combinatorial information called a fan.
Both ...
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Explicit fundamental domain for the action of $\operatorname{O}(n,1)(\mathbb{Z})$ on $\operatorname{O}(n,1)(\mathbb{R})$
Minkowski computed explicit fundamental domains for the action of $\operatorname{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$ on $\operatorname{SL}_n(\mathbb{R})/\operatorname{SO}_n(\mathbb{R})$ for each $n \leq 6$. In the ...
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Upper bounds for lattice points in orbits, and representations of binary quadratic forms
Write $\mathbb{Z}^{a\times b}$ for the $a\times b$ integer matrices. Let $n\geq 3$ and $Q\in\mathbb{Z}^{n\times n}$. Let $G=O(Q)$ be the orthogonal group of $Q$. For $X_0\in \mathbb{Z}^{2\times n}$, ...
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Orbits under an algebraic group inside a Shimura variety
Let $(G,X)$ be a Shimura datum, $K$ a compact open subgroup of $G(\mathbb A_f)$. Let $H\subset G$ be a $\mathbb Q$-subgroup. Choose a point $x\in X$. What can be said about the orbit $H(\mathbb R)\...
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Non-semisimple symmetric subgroups of simply connected simple algebraic groups
Let $G$ be a simply connected simple algebraic group over the field of complex numbers $\mathbb C$. Let $H$ be a symmetric subgroup of $G$. This means that there exists an automorphism of order 2 $\...
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How to associate a proper parabolic subgroup of a real s.s Lie group $G$ to a non-trivial unipotent element in a non uniform lattice in $G$?
Let $G$ be a real semi-simple Lie group. Let $\Gamma$ be a non-uniform lattice in $G$.
Then it is known that $\Gamma$ contains a non-trivial unipotent element. When $\mathbb{R}$-rank of $G$ is 1, it ...
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Volume of arithmetic quotients of symmetric spaces
Now let $\textbf{G}$ be some connected semisimple linear algebraic group over a number field $F$. Let $G_{\infty}$ be $\textbf{G}(\mathbb{R}\otimes_{\mathbb{Q}} F)$. Let $K_{\infty}$ be a maximal ...
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Symmetric spaces which are compact modulo the unipotent radical are compact
Is the following true?
Let $X = G/H$ be a symmetric space of a reductive group over a p-adic field $F$.
Let $X^0$ be an open orbit w.r.t. the action of the minimal parabolic $B$ of $G$.
Let $U$ be ...
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regular semisimple elements on spherical varieties
Let $(G,H_1)$ and $(G,H_2)$ be spherical pairs (i.e. $G$ is a reductive group, $H_i$ are its closed subgroups and the Borel subgroup $B$ of $G$ has a finite number of orbits on $G/H_i$).
What can ...
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Is SL_n/S(GL_k x GL_n-k) symmetric?
Background: a symmetric variety is a homogeneous space $G/H$ associated to an involution $\theta$ of a semisimple algebraic group $G$ and $\{g | \theta(g) = g\} = G^\theta \subset H \subset N_G(G^\...
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Seeking a generalization of group embedding of symmetric varieties
I am looking for generalizations of the following construction.
Let $G$ be a connected, reductive group and let $\theta : G \rightarrow G$ be an involution. Let $H = G^{\theta}$ be the subgroup of $\...
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question about equivariant embeddings of riemannian symmetric domains
Here by riemannian symmetric domain is understood an riemannian symmetric space with only factors of non-compact types. Such domains are realized as quotients of the form $D=G/K$, where $G$ is a ...
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