Abelian actions with globally hypoelliptic leafwise Laplacian and rigidity (Q327601)

The author studies the condition of having a globally hypoelliptic leafwise Laplacian, which implies finite-dimensional first and second cohomologies. In fact, in all the known cases of abelian actions satisfying this condition, both the first and the second cohomologies are trivial. In the second part of the paper, the author considers a class of examples of \(\mathbb R^2\)-actions on two-step nilmanifolds that have globally hypoelliptic leafwise Laplacian. She considers transversal local rigidity under some Diophantine conditions.