Groups that do not act by automorphisms of codimension-one foliations.

DOI10.2140/PJM.2002.204.31MaRDI QIDQ701244zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Renato Feres, David Witte Morris

Publication date 22 October 2002

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0008012

zbMATH Keywords

finite-index subgroupalmost without holonomy foliationbounded transverse invariant measureclosed leaffinite orbitfinitely generated discrete groupthe group of (transverse) automorphisms of a foliationtransversely finite action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05)

Abstract: Let G be a finitely generated group having the property that any action of any finite-index subgroup of G by homeomorphisms of the circle must have a finite orbit. (By a theorem of E.Ghys, lattices in simple Lie groups of real rank at least two have this property.) Suppose that such a G acts on a compact manifold M by automorphisms of a codimension-one C2 foliation, F. We show that if F has a compact leaf, then some finite-index subgroup of G fixes a compact leaf of F. Furthermore, we give sufficient conditions for some finite-index subgroup of G to fix each leaf of F.

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