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Rigidity of horospherical foliations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2008

Dave Witte
Dave Witte
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Department of Mathematics, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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M. Ratner's theorem on the rigidity of horocycle flows is extended to the rigidity of horospherical foliations on bundles over finite-volume locally-symmetric spaces of non-positive sectional curvature, and to other foliations of the same algebraic form.

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Research Article
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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 191 - 205
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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