Simple groups without lattices

Uri Bader, Pierre Emmanuel Caprace, Tsachik Gelander, Shahar Mozes

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Abstract

We show that the group of almost automorphisms of a d-regular tree does not admit lattices. As far as we know, this is the first such example among (compactly generated) simple locally compact groups.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)55-67
Number of pages13
JournalBulletin of the London Mathematical Society
Volume44
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2012

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Mathematics

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