Superrigidity for irreducible lattices and geometric splitting (Q6827784)

The author proves general superrigidity results for actions of lattices \(\Gamma\) on CAT(0) spaces \(X\). The groups \(\Gamma\) he considers are irreducible lattices in products of at least two arbitrary locally compact groups. The main results are first for the geometric boundary \(\partial X\) and then for the intrinsic geometry of \(X\), in this case also for infinite dimensional spaces. The main results hold also for non-uniform lattices under certain assumptions. The author presents a new and self-contained proof of Margulis' superrigidity theorem for uniform irreducible lattices in non-simple groups. The proofs rely on simple geometric arguments including a splitting theorem for actions of products of groups. In Appendix \(A\) he gives an elementary proof of commensurator superrigidity in his context.