Cartan Actions of Higher Rank Abelian Groups and their Classification

DOI10.1090/JAMS/1033MaRDI QIDQ6312722zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ralf Spatzier, Kurt Vinhage

Publication date 19 January 2019

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/jams/1033

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homogeneous spaces (22F30) Homogeneous flows (37A17) Topological and differentiable equivalence, conjugacy, moduli, classification of dynamical systems (37C15) Generic properties, structural stability of dynamical systems (37C20) Smooth ergodic theory, invariant measures for smooth dynamical systems (37C40) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20)

Abstract: We study $mathbb{R}^{k}imesmathbb{Z}^{e}ll$ actions on arbitrary compact manifolds with a projectively dense set of Anosov elements and 1-dimensional coarse Lyapunov foliations. Such actions are called totally Cartan actions. We completely classify such actions as built from low-dimensional Anosov flows and diffeomorphisms and affine actions, verifying the Katok-Spatzier conjecture for this class. This is achieved by introducing a new tool, the action of a dynamically defined topological group describing paths in coarse Lyapunov foliations, and understanding its generators and relations. We obtain applications to the Zimmer program.

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