Rank inequality for cocompact discontinuous groups

Let G/HG/H be a homogeneous space in the reductive setting, and let KK be a maximal compact subgroup of GG. Rank inequality conjecture. If G/HG/H admits a cocompact discontinuous group, then

rankG+rank(HK)rankH+rankK.\operatorname{rank}G+\operatorname{rank}(H\cap K)\geq\operatorname{rank}H+\operatorname{rank}K.

This is an obstruction to cocompact discontinuous groups for homogeneous spaces with non-compact HH. The source says that the inequality was proved by Kobayashi--Ono in the equal-rank case and later in general by Morita and Tholozan, so the conjecture is solved.

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Toshiyuki Kobayashi, “Conjectures on reductive homogeneous spaces”, arXiv:2204.08854 (2022).

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