Various Things I've Written

This is a collection of exercises, notes, and facts/proofs I think are nice :)

All errors are mine, and if I missed a relevant attribution please let me know.

Classification of the arithmetic subgroups of SO(n,1)

The asymptotic cone of the real Heisenberg group

When are one-parameter subgroups geodesics?

A proof of the Gauss lemma using valuations rather than quotients

The isometry group of a proper metric space acts properly

Betti numbers are quasi-isometry invariant among nilpotent groups

Determining a limit can be easy using subsubsequential convergence

The Bruhat-Tits tree of SL(2,Qp) and Borel's volume divisor