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From: white@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Samuel P. White)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: SL(n,R)/SL(n,Z)
Message-ID: <12668@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 22:23:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 22:23:43 1986
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Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Keywords: Lie Groups, Knots


    Let SL(n,R) be the special linear group of nxn matrices over the real
numbers and SL(n,Z) be the same except over the integers.  What is
SL(n,R)/SL(n,Z)?  If n=2 then quotient is supposedly homeomorphic as a manifold
to the complement of a trefoil.  What happens when n > 2?