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Tangential flatness and global rigidity of higher rank lattice actions
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Abstract:

We establish the continuous tangential flatness for orientable weakly Cartan actions of higher rank lattices. As a corollary, we obtain the global rigidity of Anosov Cartan actions.
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Additional Information
  • Nantian Qian
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Yale University, P.O. Box 208283, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
  • Email: qian@math.yale.edu
  • Received by editor(s): December 13, 1994
  • © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 349 (1997), 657-673
  • MSC (1991): Primary 22E40, 58E40
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-97-01857-6
  • MathSciNet review: 1401783