Cocycle superrigidity from higher rank lattices to \mathrm{Out}(F_N)

DOI10.3934/JMD.2022010arXiv2005.07477MaRDI QIDQ6340769FDOQ6340769

Authors: Vincent Guirardel, Camille Horbez, Jean Lécureux 

Publication date: 15 May 2020

Abstract: We prove a rigidity result for cocycles from higher rank lattices to $mathrmOut(F_N)$ and more generally to the outer automorphism group of a torsion-free hyperbolic group. More precisely, let $G$ be either a product of connected higher rank simple algebraic groups over local fields, or a lattice in such a product. Let $GcurvearrowrightX$ be an ergodic measure-preserving action on a standard probability space, and let $H$ be a torsion-free hyperbolic group. We prove that every Borel cocycle $GimesXomathrmOut(H)$ is cohomologous to a cocycle with values in a finite subgroup of $mathrmOut(H)$. This provides a dynamical version of theorems of Farb--Kaimanovich--Masur and Bridson--Wade asserting that every morphism from $G$ to either the mapping class group of a finite-type surface or the outer automorphism group of a free group, has finite image. The main new geometric tool is a barycenter map that associates to every triple of points in the boundary of the (relative) free factor graph a finite set of (relative) free splittings.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphisms of infinite groups (20E36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Algebraic ergodic theory, cocycles, orbit equivalence, ergodic equivalence relations (37A20) Linear algebraic groups over local fields and their integers (20G25)

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