## Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A, Mathematical Sciences

### On discontinuous subgroups acting on solvable homogeneous spaces

Ali Baklouti

#### Abstract

We present in this note an analogue of the Selberg-Weil-Kobayashi local rigidity Theorem in the setting of exponential Lie groups and substantiate two related conjectures. We also introduce the notion of stable discrete subgroups of a Lie group $G$ following the stability of an infinitesimal deformation introduced by T. Kobayashi and S. Nasrin (cf. [11]). For Heisenberg groups, stable discrete subgroups are either non-abelian or abelian and maximal. When $G$ is threadlike nilpotent, non-abelian discrete subgroups are stable. One major aftermath of the notion of stability as reveal some studied cases, is that the related deformation spaces are Hausdorff spaces and in most of the cases endowed with smooth manifold structures.

#### Article information

Source
Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci., Volume 87, Number 9 (2011), 173-177.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 4 November 2011

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1320417396

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.3792/pjaa.87.173

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2863361

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1241.22009

#### Citation

Baklouti, Ali. On discontinuous subgroups acting on solvable homogeneous spaces. Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci. 87 (2011), no. 9, 173--177. doi:10.3792/pjaa.87.173. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.pja/1320417396

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