Central extensions of simple Lie groups and rigidity of some Abelian partially hyperbolic algebraic actions (Q2474582)

The author applies the approach of a previous joint paper with Katok [\textit{D. Damjanovic} and \textit{A. Katok}, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 13, No.~4, 985--1005 (2005; Zbl 1109.37029)] to obtain cocycle rigidity results. The previous paper by the author and Katok concerns spaces of the form \(\text{SL}(n,\mathbb{R})/\Gamma\) and \(\text{SL}(n,\mathbb{C})/\Gamma\), where \(\Gamma\) is a lattice, and the paper under review concerns more general Lie groups. More precisely, the author proves the triviality of some real-valued cocycles and small nonabelian groups valued cocycles over partially hyperbolic abelian algebraic actions. He obtains a general criterion for cocycle rigidity of a partially hyperbolic action with a locally transitive collection of Lyapunov foliations, which is based on the structure of geometric obstructions to cocycle trivialisation. He then uses this criterion to obtain a cocycle rigidity result for generic restrictions of Weyl chamber flows on some homogeneous spaces. The author shows that smooth real valued cocycles can be trivialized, as well as small cocycles taking values in groups of diffeomorphisms of compact manifolds and some semisimple Lie groups. He then obtains results on the local differentiable rigidity for such actions.