Property FW, differentiable structures and smoothability of singular actions

DOI10.1112/TOPO.12151MaRDI QIDQ5108910zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yash Lodha, Nicolás Matte Bon, Michele Triestino

Publication date 6 May 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08567

zbMATH Keywords

germgrupoidsproperty FWsingular actionssmoothability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kazhdan's property (T), the Haagerup property, and generalizations (22D55) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We provide a smoothening criterion for group actions on manifolds by singular diffeomorphisms. We prove that if a countable group $Gamma$ has the fixed point property FW for walls (e.g. if it has property (T)), every aperiodic action of $Gamma$ by diffeomorphisms that are of class $C^r$ with countably many singularities is conjugate to an action by true diffeomorphisms of class $C^r$ on a homeomorphic (possibly non-diffeomorphic) manifold. As applications, we show that Navas's result for actions of Kazhdan groups on the circle, as well as the recent solutions to Zimmer's conjecture, generalise to aperiodic actions by diffeomorphisms with countably many singularities.

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