Title: Geometry, rigidity, and group actions /
Authors: Zimmer, Robert J., 1947-; Farb, Benson.; Fisher, Dudu.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Rigidity (Geometry); Group actions (Mathematics); Manifolds (Mathematics)
Contents: An extension criterion for lattice actions on the circle / Marc Burger -- Meromorphic almost rigid geometric structures / Sorin Dumitrescu -- Harmonic functions over group actions / Renato Feres and Emily Ronshausen -- Groups acting on manifolds : around the Zimmer program / David Fisher -- Can lattices in SL (n, R) act on the circle? / Dave Witte Morris -- Some remarks on area-preserving actions of lattices / Pierre Py -- Isometric actions of simple groups and transverse structures : the integrable normal case / Raul Quiroga-Barranco -- Some remarks inspired by the C⁰ Zimmer program / Shmuel Weinberger -- Calculus on nilpotent lie groups / Michael G. Cowling -- A survey of measured group theory / Alex Furman -- On relative property (T) / Alessandra Iozzi -- Noncommutative ergodic theorems / Anders Karlsson and François Ledrappier -- Cocycle and orbit superrigidity for lattices in SL (n, R) acting on homogeneous spaces / Sorin Popa and Stefaan Vaes -- Heights on SL₂ and free subgroups / Emmanuel Breuillard -- Displacing representations and orbit maps / Thomas Delzant [and others] -- Problems on automorphism groups of nonpositively curved polyhedral complexes and their lattices / Benson Farb, Chris Hruska, and Anne Thomas -- The geometry of twisted conjugacy classes in wreath products / Jennifer Taback and Peter Wong -- Ergodicity of mapping class group actions on SU(2)-character varieties / William M. Goldman and Eugene Z. Xia -- Dynamics of Aut (F[subscript]n) actions on group presentations and representations / Alexander Lubotzky.