Absolute profinite rigidity conjecture for lattices in PSL(2,R){\rm PSL}(2,\mathbb R) and PSL(2,C){\rm PSL}(2,\mathbb C)

A lattice is a discrete subgroup of PSL(2,R){\rm PSL}(2,\mathbb R) or PSL(2,C){\rm PSL}(2,\mathbb C) having finite covolume. A group is profinitely rigid in the absolute sense if every finitely generated, residually finite group with the same finite quotients is isomorphic to it.

Absolute profinite rigidity conjecture for lattices. All lattices in

PSL(2,R)andPSL(2,C){\rm PSL}(2,\mathbb R) \quad\text{and}\quad {\rm PSL}(2,\mathbb C)

are profinitely rigid in the absolute sense.

The source notes that this is widely believed for lattices in PSL(2,R){\rm PSL}(2,\mathbb R), while the consensus is less uniform in the Kleinian case. Liu's finite genus theorem gives only finitely many possibilities under an additional lattice hypothesis, and recent results constrain the remaining ambiguity.

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Primary source

Martin R. Bridson, “Chasing finite shadows of infinite groups through geometry”, arXiv:2504.11684 (2025).

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