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

DOI10.2140/PJM.2002.204.31zbMATH Open1055.57037arXivmath/0008012OpenAlexW2017530638MaRDI QIDQ701244FDOQ701244

Authors: Renato Feres, David Witte Morris 

Publication date: 22 October 2002

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

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.

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

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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)

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