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Deformations of group actions
Author(s):
David
Fisher
Journal:
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.
360
(2008),
491-505.
MSC (2000):
Primary 37C85
Posted:
July 20, 2007
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Let  be a non-compact real algebraic group and  a lattice. One purpose of this paper is to show that there is a smooth, volume preserving, mixing action of  or  on a compact manifold which admits a smooth deformation. In fact, we prove a stronger statement by exhibiting large finite dimensional spaces of deformations. We also describe some other, rather special, deformations when  .
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David
Fisher
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Rawles Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04372-3
PII:
S 0002-9947(07)04372-3
Received by editor(s):
July 5, 2006
Posted:
July 20, 2007
Additional Notes:
The author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0226121 and a PSC-CUNY grant.
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