Product groups acting on manifolds

DOI10.1215/00127094-2009-018zbMATH Open1167.22015arXiv0710.3119OpenAlexW2073846614MaRDI QIDQ1018554FDOQ1018554

Alex Furman, Nicolas Monod

Publication date: 20 May 2009

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyse volume-preserving actions of product groups on Riemannian manifolds. To this end, we establish a new superrigidity theorem for ergodic cocycles of product groups ranging in linear groups. There are no a priori assumptions on the acting groups, except a spectral gap assumption on their action. Our main application to manifolds concerns irreducible actions of Kazhdan product groups. We prove the following dichotomy: Either the action is infinitesimally linear, which means that the derivative cocycle arises from unbounded linear representations of all factors. Otherwise, the action is measurably isometric, in which case there are at most two factors in the product group. As a first application, this provides lower bounds on the dimension of the manifold in terms of the number of factors in the acting group. Another application is a strong restriction for actions of non-linear groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3119

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zbMATH Keywords

ergodic actionKazhdan's property (T)spectral gap propertysuperrigidity theoremergodic cocycleFurstenberg condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measurable group actions (22F10) General groups of measure-preserving transformations and dynamical systems (37A15) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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