Diagonal actions in positive characteristic (Q2178446)

The authors obtain a classification result for positive entropy measures on quotients of \(\mathrm{SL}_d\) and a classification of joinings for higher-rank actions on simply connected almost simple groups. The proofs use the so-called high-entropy and low-entropy methods and are based on leafwise measures for the root subgroups (or more generally the coarse Lyapunov subgroups), which are locally finite measures on unipotent subgroups. The results are positive-characteristic analogues of measure rigidity theorems in characteristic 0 obtained in [\textit{M. Einsiedler} et al., Ann. Math. (2) 164, No. 2, 513--560 (2006; Zbl 1109.22004); \textit{M. Einsiedler} and \textit{E. Lindenstrauss}, Duke Math. J. 138, No. 2, 203--232 (2007; Zbl 1118.37008)].