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Bohr density of simple linear group orbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2013

ROGER HOWE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8283, USA email howe@math.yale.edu
FRANÇOIS ZIEGLER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460-8093, USA email fziegler@georgiasouthern.edu

Abstract

We show that any non-zero orbit under a non-compact, simple, irreducible linear group is dense in the Bohr compactification of the ambient space.

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Research Article
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© Cambridge University Press, 2013 

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