Local Rigidity of Algebraic Partially Hyperbolic Actions
November 18, 2013
11:30am 651G PGH
Abstract
Starting in the 1990's, the rigidity of Weyl chamber flows have been
studied. Unlike their classical counterparts like geodesic flow on
hyperbolic surfaces or toral automorphisms, these actions demonstrate more
striking rigidity phenomenon. In particular, structural stability is
upgraded to \(C^\infty\) conjugacy, and the Livsic theorem is upgraded to
full cocycle rigidity. Until recently, no unified argument existed to show
this phenomenon in a partially hyperbolic setting: all existing arguments
relied on classical algebraic K-theory or heavy computations in second
group homology that were verified ad-hoc. In this talk, one such unified
argument will be presented.
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