Margulis lemma

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Named after Grigory Margulis.

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the Margulis lemma

  1. (differential geometry) A result about discrete subgroups of isometries of a non-positively curved Riemannian manifold, stating roughly that, within a fixed radius (the Margulis constant), the structure of the orbits of such a group cannot be too complicated. More precisely, within this radius around a point all points in its orbit are in fact in the orbit of a nilpotent subgroup (in fact a bounded finite number of such).