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Limits of Lattices in a Compactly Generated Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

A. M. Macbeath  and
S. Świerczkowski
A. M. Macbeath
Affiliation:
Queen's College
S. Świerczkowski
Affiliation:
Dundee, Scotland
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Let G be a locally compact and (σ-compact topological group and let H be a discrete subgroup of G. We shall use G/H to denote the space of right cosets Hx of H with the usual topology (cf. (8, pp. 26-28)). Let μ be the left Haar measure in G. μ induces a measure in the space G/H3; this measure will, without ambiguity in this paper, also be denoted by μ. If μ(G/H) is finite, the group H is called a lattice. If the space G/H is compact, then H is certainly a lattice and is called a bounded lattice. These terms are an extension of the usage of the Geometry of Numbers, where G is the real n-dimensional vector space Rn. In this case any lattice is generated by n linearly independent vectors, all lattices are bounded, and the whole family of lattices is permuted transitively by the automorphisms of G (which are the non-singular linear transformations).

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 12 , 1960 , pp. 427 - 437
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1960

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