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Questions about the branch of algebra that deals with groups.

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Ergodic action of a subgroup

You can take $G$ to be any simple Lie group with finite center, and $H$ to be any non-compact Lie subgroup. Then, if the action of $G$ is ergodic, so is the action of $H$. This statement is called the …
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What invariants of a matrix or representation can be used to find its GL(n,Z)-conjugacy class?

In each conjugacy class you can always find a representative which is block upper triangular, and the diagonal blocks have irreducible characteristic polynomials. This gives a partial reduction to the …
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Are there some nontrivial group homomorphisms from $SL_n(\mathbb{Z})$ to $GL_{n-1}(\mathbb{Z...

By the Margulis superrigidity theorem, any homomorphism from $SL(n,\mathbb{Z})$ to $SL(n-1,\mathbb{R})$ with infinite image has to extend to a homomorphism from $SL(n,\mathbb{R})$ to $SL(n-1,\mathbb{R …
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Computing the Zariski closure of a subgroup of SL(n,Z)

Suppose $\Gamma$ is a finitely generated subgroup of $SL(n,\mathbb{Z})$, given as a list of generators. We would like to (somewhat efficiently) try to compute the Zariski closure of $\Gamma$, which is …
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Lattices in $SL(n,\mathbb R)$

The answer is yes. It is theorem [2.13] of the following paper of Prasad and Raghunathan: Prasad, Gopal; Raghunathan, M. S. Cartan subgroups and lattices in semi-simple groups. Ann. of Math. (2) 96 ( …
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