Weakly hyperbolic actions of Kazhdan groups on tori

DOI10.1007/S00039-006-0570-YzbMATH Open1108.37005arXivmath/0511314OpenAlexW1972219507MaRDI QIDQ866871FDOQ866871

Authors: Benjamin Schmidt 

Publication date: 14 February 2007

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the ergodic and rigidity properties of weakly hyperbolic group actions. Motivated by classical theorems describing Anosov diffeomorphisms, we obtain two main results: First, all C^2 volume preserving weakly hyperbolic actions on closed manifolds are ergodic. This result generalizes Anosov's classical theorem on ergodicity of Anosov diffeomorphisms to the wider class of weakly hyperbolic group actions. To state the second main result, suppose that A denotes a weakly hyperbolic action of a higher rank lattice (such as SL(n,Z) for n>2) by C^2 volume preserving diffeomorphisms on the torus. If A is covered by an action of the universal covering space, R^n, of the torus, then A induces a weakly hyperbolic representation on the first homology of the torus. This result may be viewed as an analogue of Manning's contribution to the Franks/Manning classification of Anosov diffeos. on tori. We draw conclusions related to Zimmer's program of classifying ergodic volume preserving actions of higher rank lattices. Both results rely on a new regularity result of Rauch and Talyor relating Sobolev classes of functions measured tangentially with respect to leaves of absolutely continuous foliations to global Sobolev classes of functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511314

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zbMATH Keywords

partially hyperbolic diffeomorphismshigher rank latticesKazhdan propertyweakly hyperbolic actions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Dynamical systems involving transformations and group actions with special properties (minimality, distality, proximality, expansivity, etc.) (37B05) Uniformly hyperbolic systems (expanding, Anosov, Axiom A, etc.) (37D20) Partially hyperbolic systems and dominated splittings (37D30) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)

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• On mixing properties of compact group extensions of hyperbolic systems
• Weakly homoclinic groups of ergodic actions

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