On the Projective Class Group of Arithmetic Groups.
A variety over a field is of Hilbert type if is not thin. We prove that if is a dominant morphism of -varieties and both and all fibers , , are of Hilbert type, then so is . We apply this to answer a question of Serre on products of varieties and to generalize a result of Colliot-Thélène and Sansuc on algebraic groups.
We apply G. Prasad’s volume formula for the arithmetic quotients of semi-simple groups and Bruhat-Tits theory to study the covolumes of arithmetic subgroups of . As a result we prove that for any even dimension there exists a unique compact arithmetic hyperbolic -orbifold of the smallest volume. We give a formula for the Euler-Poincaré characteristic of the orbifolds and present an explicit description of their fundamental groups as the stabilizers of certain lattices in quadratic spaces. We...