Volume-preserving actions of simple algebraic Q-groups on low-dimensional manifolds

DOI10.1142/S1793525312500124MaRDI QIDQ3166251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert J. Zimmer, David Witte Morris

Publication date 10 October 2012

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3139

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic groupgroup actionalmost-simple algebraic groupisotropic groupvolume-preserving action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30) Topological transformation groups (57S99) Noncompact transformation groups (22F99)

Abstract: We prove that SL(n,Q) has no nontrivial, C-infinity, volume-preserving action on any compact manifold of dimension strictly less than n. More generally, suppose G is a connected, isotropic, almost-simple algebraic group over Q, such that the simple factors of every localization of G have rank at least two. If there does not exist a nontrivial homomorphism from G(R) to GL(d,C), then every C-infinity, volume-preserving action of G(Q) on any compact d-dimensional manifold must factor through a finite group.

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