Global rigidity of higher rank abelian Anosov algebraic actions (Q464828)

The following main theorem is proved in the paper: Suppose \(\alpha:\mathbb{Z}^r\curvearrowright M\) is a \(C^\infty\) action on a compact infra-nilmanifold \(M\), where \(r\geq 2\), and let \(\rho\) be its linearization. Assume that there exists \(n_0\in\mathbb R^n\) such that \(\alpha(n_0)\) is an Anosov diffeomorphism, and that \(\rho\) has no rank-one factor. Then \(\alpha\) is conjugate to \(\rho\) by a \(C^\infty\) diffeomorphism.