How frequent are discrete cyclic subgroups of semisimple Lie groups?

Jörg Winkelmann
Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences University of Tokyo (Todai) Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8914 Japan

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Abstract

Let $G$ be a non-compact semisimple Lie group. We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the probability of generating a discrete subgroup.

Jörg Winkelmann, How frequent are discrete cyclic subgroups of semisimple Lie groups?. Doc. Math. 6 (2001), pp. 29–35