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Deformations of complex structures on Γ/SL 2(C)

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LetG be a connected complex semisimple Lie group. Let Γ be a cocompact lattice inG. In this paper, we show that whenG isSL 2(C), nontrivial deformations of the canonical complex structure onX exist if and only if the first Betti number of the lattice Γ is non-zero. It may be remarked that for a wide class of arithmetic groups Γ, one can find a subgroup Γ′ of finite index in Γ, such that Γ′/[Γ′,Γ′] is finite (it is a conjecture of Thurston that this is true for all cocompact lattices inSL(2, C)).

We also show thatG acts trivially on the coherent cohomology groupsH i(Γ/G, O) for anyi≥0.

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  1. School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, 400 005, Bombay, India

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Rajan, C.S. Deformations of complex structures on Γ/SL 2(C). Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) 104, 389–395 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02863419

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