Sami Douba (Ï㽶ÊÓƵ)
TITLE: Thin right-angled Coxeter subgroups of some arithmetic lattices
ABSTRACT: Roughly speaking, a subgroup of a lattice in a semisimple Lie group is said to be thin if the subgroup is of infinite index in the lattice but is Zariski-dense in the Lie group. Free groups and surface groups have many manifestations as thin subgroups of lattices in Lie groups, by classical work of Tits in the free case, and by work of Kahn–Markovic, Hamenstädt, Long–Reid, Kahn–Labourie–Mozes, and others in the surface group case. We sketch an argument that an irreducible right-angled Coxeter group on n>2 vertices embeds as a thin subgroup of an arithmetic lattice in O(p,q) for some p,q>0 satisfying p+q=n, and that we can arrange for the lattice to be cocompact