Zimmer's conjecture for nonsplit semisimple groups
[Math. Dept.]
May 16, 2019 11:00-12:00
W303 School of Mathematics
SPEAKER
安金鹏（北京大学）
ABSTRACT
Zimmer's conjecture states that a lattice in a higher rank real semisimple Lie group cannot act nontrivially on a compact manifold of dimension less than a constant given explicitly by the group. A breakthrough was made recently by Aaron Brown, David Fisher and Sebastian Hurtado. They proved the conjecture for cocompact lattices in split semisimple groups. For nonsplit groups, they also established a weaker result in which the dimension of the manifold is assumed to be less than a smaller constant. In this talk, we discuss the proof of Zimmer's conjecture for cocompact lattices in some nonsplit groups, including all complex semisimple groups and many noncomplex nonsplit almost-simple groups. This is a joint work with Aaron Brown and Zhiyuan Zhang.
SUPPORTED BY
Tianyuan Mathematical Center in Southwest China
School of Mathematics, Sichuan University
VIDEO
- Zimmer's conjecture for nonsplit semisimple groups
- 11:00 - 12:00, 2019-05-16 at W303 School of Mathematics
- 安金鹏（北京大学）