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Non-arithmetic lattices.

Gromov, M.; Piatetski-Shapiro, I. Nonarithmetic groups in Lobachevsky spaces. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. No. 66 (1988), 93—103.

Vinberg, …

Margulis’ amazing arithmeticity theorem says that irreducible lattices in Lie groups of high (>2) rank are arithmetic. But {\rm SO}(n,1) has rank 1, so a question is how to produce non-arithmetic lattices. For {\rm SO}(3,1), there are non-arithmetic lattices coming from hyperbolic knot complements.

G—P-S produces higher dimensional examples by taking two hyperbolic (arithmetic) manifolds, cutting along totally geodesic hypersurfaces, and gluing. Are there are examples of non-arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds without any totally geodesics hypersurfaces?

There are complements of T^2’s in S^4 which are hyperbolic, and maybe these would provide some examples.

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