Margulis's conjecture on Hilbert modular lattices

Let GG be the product of n2n\geq 2 copies of SL(2,R)\operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb{R}). Let U1U_1 and U2U_2 be the products of, respectively, upper- and lower-unipotent one-parameter subgroups in the factors of GG. Let Γ<G\Gamma<G be discrete, assume that for i=1,2i=1,2, ΓUi\Gamma\cap U_i is a lattice in UiU_i, and assume that for every proper connected normal subgroup N<GN<G, the intersection ΓNUi\Gamma\cap N\cap U_i is trivial. Margulis's conjecture. Then Γ\Gamma is commensurable with a Hilbert modular lattice, up to conjugation in GL(2,R)××GL(2,R)\operatorname{GL}(2,\mathbb{R})\times\cdots\times\operatorname{GL}(2,\mathbb{R}). This is a rigidity conjecture for discrete subgroups of products of rank-one groups. The source mentions an application due to Hee Oh but supplies no resolution of the conjecture.

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Manfred Einsiedler, Anatole Katok and Elon Lindenstrauss, “Invariant measures and the set of exceptions to Littlewood's conjecture”, arXiv:math/0612721 (2006).

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