Superrigidity, generalized harmonic maps and uniformly convex spaces (Q2480859)

From MaRDI portal
scientific article
Language Label Description Also known as
English
Superrigidity, generalized harmonic maps and uniformly convex spaces
scientific article

    Statements

    Superrigidity, generalized harmonic maps and uniformly convex spaces (English)
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    3 April 2008
    0 references
    In an unpublished manuscript in the 90es Margulis generalized his famous superrigidity results for lattices in semisimple Lie groups to a fairly general class of topological groups. This is further generalized in this paper. Let \(G\) be a locally compact compactly generated group which is a nontrivial product and let \(\Gamma\) be a lattice. Assume that \(\Gamma\) acts by isometries on a topological complete metric space \(X\). The space \(X\) and the action are assumed to fulfill certain metric-topological conditions. In particular \(X\) is assumed to be ``Busemann non-positively curved''. Then the \(\Gamma\)-action extends in a unique way to a continuous action of \(G\) on \(X\). See also the related work of \textit{N. Monod} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 19, No. 4 781--814 (2006; Zbl 1105.22006)].
    0 references
    superrigidity
    0 references
    metric geometry
    0 references
    Busemann non-positively curved
    0 references

    Identifiers

    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references
    0 references