Arithmetic lattice discreteness conjecture for subgroups generated by unipotent elements

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Let nn be a positive integer, set G=SLn(R)G=\operatorname{SL}_n(\mathbb R) and Γ=SLn(Z)\Gamma=\operatorname{SL}_n(\mathbb Z), and let WSLn(Q)W\subset\operatorname{SL}_n(\mathbb Q) be a closed subgroup of GG contained in the Zariski closure of a subgroup generated by AdG\operatorname{Ad}_G-unipotent elements of WW.

Arithmetic lattice discreteness conjecture. If WΓW\Gamma is discrete, then WΓW\cap\Gamma has finite index in WW.

The paper presents this as a typical higher-rank case to which the preceding conjecture can be reduced. A footnote records that Alex Eskin and G. A. Margulis had informed the author that they could prove it, but the supplied status is not resolved, so it is retained as open.

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Nimish A. Shah, “Invariant Measures and Orbit Closures on Homogeneous Spaces for Actions of Subgroups Generated by Unipotent Elements”, arXiv:math/0002183 (2000).

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