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Ergodic Theory, Groups, and Geometry

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Robert J. Zimmer, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and Dave Witte Morris, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

Publication: CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics
Publication Year: 2008; Volume 109
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0980-8 (print); 978-1-4704-1567-9 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/cbms/109
MathSciNet review: MR2457556
MSC: Primary 37C85; Secondary 22F10, 28D15, 37A15, 53C24, 57S20

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Chapters

• Lecture 1. Introduction
• Lecture 2. Actions in dimension 1 or 2
• Lecture 3. Geometric structures
• Lecture 4. Fundamental groups I
• Lecture 5. Gromov representation
• Lecture 6. Superrigidity and first applications
• Lecture 7. Fundamental groups II (Arithmetic theory)
• Lecture 8. Locally homogeneous spaces
• Lecture 9. Stationary measures and projective quotients
• Lecture 10. Orbit equivalence
• 11. Appendix. Background material