Groups acting on manifolds: around the Zimmer program

zbMATH Open1264.22012arXiv0809.4849MaRDI QIDQ2908710FDOQ2908710

Authors: David Fisher 

Publication date: 5 September 2012

Abstract: This paper is a survey on the {em Zimmer program}. In it's broadest form, this program seeks an understanding of actions of large groups on compact manifolds. The goals of this survey are $(1)$ to put in context the original questions and conjectures of Zimmer and Gromov that motivated the program, $(2)$ to indicate the current state of the art on as many of these conjectures and questions as possible and $(3)$ to indicate a wide variety of open problems and directions of research.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4849

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zbMATH Keywords

cocycleharmonic mapsemisimple Lie groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Compact groups of homeomorphisms (57S10)

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