A note on local rigidity (Q1768272)

The rigidity of lattices in semisimple Lie groups has been intensively and extensively studied. There are several versions of rigidity results, for example, local rigidity, strong rigidity and super-rigidity. In this paper the authors prove a version of the local rigidity which says that under small deformations, a lattice is still a lattice (the so-called Ehresmann's principle) and isomorphic to the original lattice under some necessary conditions. This together with the Mostow strong rigidity implies local rigidity, i.e., any small deformation of a lattice is given by a conjugation.