Discrete free Abelian central stabilizers in a higher order frame bundle

Publication date: 26 February 2016

Abstract: Let a real Lie group

G

have a

C^{i} n f t y

action on a real manifold

M

. Assume every nontrivial element of

G

has nowhere dense fixpoint set in

M

. First, we show, in every frame bundle, except possibly the

0

th, that each stabilizer admits no nontrivial compact subgroups. Second, we show that, if

G

is connected, then there is a dense open

G

-invariant subset of some higher order frame bundle of

M

such that, for any point

x

in that subset, the stabilizer in

G

of

x

is a discrete, finitely-generated, free-Abelian, central subgroup of

G

. We derive several corollaries of these two results.

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