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Cocompact discontinuous groups for tangential homogeneous spaces

Determine for which pairs (G,H) of real reductive Lie groups the tangential homogeneous space G_\theta/H_\theta (associated to the Cartan motion group of G) admits a cocompact discontinuous group.

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Background

The tangential analogue replaces G/H with the simpler Cartan motion group quotient G_\theta/H_\theta to approximate the original classification problem for cocompact discontinuous groups.

Even in symmetric cases, the tangential problem remains unresolved, though it is expected to be more tractable; certain special cases (e.g., pseudo-Riemannian space forms) are settled via RadonHurwitz numbers.

References

For which pairs $(G,H)$ of real reductive Lie groups, does the tangential homogeneous space $G_{\theta}/H_{\theta}$ admit a cocompact discontinuous group? This problem is expected to be significantly simpler than the original one, yet it remains unsolved even in the case of symmetric spaces.

Proper Actions and Representation Theory (2506.15616 - Kobayashi, 18 Jun 2025) in Problem \ref{prob:G5}, Section 4.4