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Simple groups without lattices

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 نشر من قبل Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace
 تاريخ النشر 2010
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We show that the group of almost automorphisms of a d-regular tree does not admit lattices. As far as we know this is the first such example among (compactly generated) simple locally compact groups.



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