Group actions in ergodic theory, geometry, and topology : selected papers /

"This volume of Robert J. Zimmer's selected papers, collected here for the first time, provides a rich context for his now-classic insights on group actions. The volume opens with a foreword by David Fisher, Alexander Lubotzky, and Gregory Margulis, as well as a substantial introductory es...

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Main Authors: Zimmer, Robert J., 1947
Group Author: Fisher, David Mathematician; Lubotzky, Alexander, 1956; Margulis, G. A. Gregori Aleksandrovitsch, 1946
Published: University of Chicago Press,
Publisher Address: Chicago, IL :
Publication Dates: 2020.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Summary: "This volume of Robert J. Zimmer's selected papers, collected here for the first time, provides a rich context for his now-classic insights on group actions. The volume opens with a foreword by David Fisher, Alexander Lubotzky, and Gregory Margulis, as well as a substantial introductory essay by Zimmer himself, recounting the course of his career in mathematics. The volume closes with an article by Fisher on the most recent developments around the Zimmer program"--
Carrier Form: xi, 711 pages ; 27 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780226568133
022656813X
Index Number: QA3
CLC: O152
Call Number: O152/Z723
Contents: Spectra and structure of ergodic actions -- Amenable actions, equivalence relations, and foliations -- Orbit equivalence and strong rigidity -- Cocycle superrigidity and the program to describe Lie group and lattice actions on manifolds -- Stabilizers of semisimple Lie group actions : invariant random subgroups -- Representations and arithmetic properties of actions, fundamental groups, and foliations -- Geometric structures : automorphisms of geometric manifolds and rigid structures ; locally homogeneous manifolds -- Stationary measures and structure theorems for Lie group actions.