Quasi-isometric rigidity of higher rank S–arithmetic lattices

Wortman, Kevin¹

¹ Mathematics Department, Yale University, PO Box 208283, New Haven CT 06520-8283, USA

Geometry & topology, Tome 11 (2007) no. 2, pp. 995-1048.

Résumé

We show that $S$–arithmetic lattices in semisimple Lie groups with no rank one factors are quasi-isometrically rigid.

Détail

DOI : 10.2140/gt.2007.11.995

Keywords: quasi-isometry, arithmetic, quasi-isometry, arithmetic

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