International Mathematics Research Notices Advance Access published online on September 20, 2009
International Mathematics Research Notices, doi:10.1093/imrn/rnp149
Discrete Subgroups of
Generated by Triangular Matrices
1 Department of Mathematics, CNRS-Université Paris-Sud Bat 425, 91405, Orsay, France
2 Department of Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
3 Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
Correspondence: Correspondence to be sent to: heeoh{at}math.brown.edu
Based on the ideas in some recently uncovered notes of Selberg [14] on discrete subgroups of a product of
s, we show that a discrete subgroup of
generated by lattices in the upper and lower triangular subgroups is an arithmetic subgroup and hence a lattice in
.