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Some real moduli spaces can be presented as real hyperbolic space modulo a non-arithmetic group. The whole moduli space is made from some incommensurable arithmetic pieces, in the spirit of the construction of Gromov and Piatetski-Shapiro.
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Allcock, D., Carlson, J.A. & Toledo, D. Non-Arithmetic Uniformization of Some Real Moduli Spaces. Geom Dedicata 122, 159–169 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-005-9039-7
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