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Boundaries, Weyl groups, and Superrigidity

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posted on 2012-08-17, 00:00 authored by Uri Bader, Alex Furman
This note describes a unified approach to several superrigidity results, old and new, concerning representations of lattices into simple algebraic groups over local fields. For an arbitrary group Γ and a boundary action Γ B we associate a certain generalized Weyl group WΓ,B and show that any representation with a Zariski dense unbounded image in a simple algebraic group, ρ : Γ → H, defines a special homomorphism WΓ,B → WeylH. This general fact allows the deduction of the aforementioned superrigidity results.

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U.B. and A.F. were supported in part by the BSF grant 2008267. U.B was supported in part by the ISF grant 704/08. A.F. was supported in part by the NSF grants DMS 0905977.

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© 2012 by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Electronic Research Announcements DOI: 10.3934/era.2012.19.41

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American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

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  • en_US

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1935-9179

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2012-03-01

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