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C1 actions on manifolds by lattices in Lie groups

Part of: Lie groups Dynamical systems with hyperbolic behavior Smooth dynamical systems: general theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2022

Aaron Brown ,
Danijela Damjanović  and
Zhiyuan Zhang
Aaron Brown
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA awb@northwestern.edu
Danijela Damjanović
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Lindstedtsvägen 25, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden ddam@kth.se
Zhiyuan Zhang
Affiliation:
Institut Galilée, Université Paris 13, CNRS UMR, 7539, 93430 Villetaneuse, France zhiyuan.zhang@math.univ-paris13.fr
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Abstract

In this paper we study Zimmer's conjecture for $C^{1}$ actions of lattice subgroup of a higher-rank simple Lie group with finite center on compact manifolds. We show that when the rank of an uniform lattice is larger than the dimension of the manifold, then the action factors through a finite group. For lattices in ${\rm SL}(n, {{\mathbb {R}}})$, the dimensional bound is sharp.

Keywords

lattice actionsZimmer's conjecturerigidity

MSC classification

Primary: 37C85: Dynamics of group actions other than ${bf Z}$ and ${bf R}$, and foliations 22E40: Discrete subgroups of Lie groups
Secondary: 37D25: Nonuniformly hyperbolic systems (Lyapunov exponents, Pesin theory, etc.)
Type
Research Article
Information
Compositio Mathematica , Volume 158 , Issue 3 , March 2022 , pp. 529 - 549
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Footnotes

Brown was supported by NSF No.1752675. Damjanović was supported by Swedish Research Council grant VR2015-04644. Zhang was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMS-1638352.

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