Stabilizers of ergodic actions of lattices and commensurators

Creutz, Darren; Peterson, Jesse

doi:10.1090/tran/6836

Stabilizers of ergodic actions of lattices and commensurators
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Abstract:

We prove that any ergodic measure-preserving action of an irreducible lattice in a semisimple group, with finite center and each simple factor having rank at least two, either has finite orbits or has finite stabilizers. The same dichotomy holds for many commensurators of such lattices.

The above are derived from more general results on groups with the Howe-Moore property and property $(T)$. We prove similar results for commensurators in such groups and for irreducible lattices (and commensurators) in products of at least two such groups, at least one of which is totally disconnected.

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