Rigidity of partially hyperbolic actions.

Seminar: 
Group Actions and Dynamics
Event time: 
Monday, October 25, 2010 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Zhenqi Wang
Speaker affiliation: 
Yale University
Event description: 

We prove the local differentiable rigidity of generic partially hyperbolic abelian algebraic higher-rank actions on compact homogeneous spaces obtained from various simple groups. The conclusions are based on the geometric approach by Katok-Damjanovic and a progress towards computations of the generating relations in these groups.