Connection preserving actions are topologically engaging

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Authors Alberto Candel, Raul Quiroga-Barranco

Publication date 15 January 2003

Published in Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2194

zbMATH Keywords

geometric engagementrigiditytopological engagement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(G)-structures (53C10) Rigidity results (53C24)

Abstract: Topologically and geometrically engaging actions have proved to be useful to obtain rigidity results for semisimple Lie group actions. We show that the action of a simple noncompact Lie group on a compact manifold preserving a unimodular rigid geometric structure of algebraic type (e.g. a connection together with a volume density) is topologically engaging on an open conull dense set.

Review text

A smooth action of a connected Lie group \(G\) on a manifold is called topologically engaging if there is some \(\widetilde g\in\widetilde G\) in the universal covering of \(G\) that acts on \(\widetilde M\) with locally closed orbits and that projects to an element \(g\in G\) that does not lie in a compact subgroup. In the present paper is shown that the action of a simple noncompact Lie group on a compact manifold preserving a unimodular rigid geometric structure of algebraic type (e.g. a connection together with a volume density) is topologically engaging on an open conull dense set.

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