Kobayashi's standard quotient conjecture for reductive homogeneous spaces

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Let G/HG/H be a reductive homogeneous space. A compact quotient is a quotient Γ\G/H\Gamma\backslash G/H by a discrete subgroup Γ\Gamma acting properly discontinuously and cocompactly; a standard compact quotient is one arising from a reductive subgroup acting transitively on G/HG/H with compact stabilizer.

Kobayashi's conjecture. The reductive homogeneous space G/HG/H admits compact quotients if and only if it admits standard ones.

This conjecture asks whether every compact quotient of a reductive homogeneous space is standard up to deformation or other constructions. It remains open.

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Primary source

Fanny Kassel, Yosuke Morita and Nicolas Tholozan, “Compact quotients of homogeneous spaces and homotopy theory of sphere bundles”, arXiv:2601.05857 (2026).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:0805.4506, arXiv:0710.4492.

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