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Raghunathan’s conjectures for SL(2,R)

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In this paper I give simple proofs of Raghunathan’s conjectures for SL(2,R). These proofs incorporate in a simplified form some of the ideas and methods I used to prove the Raghunathan’s conjectures for general connected Lie groups.

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Partially supported by the NSF Grant DMS-8701840.

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Ratner, M. Raghunathan’s conjectures for SL(2,R). Israel J. Math. 80, 1–31 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02808152

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