The smooth-volume-preservation conjecture for generic random groups

Let Γ\Gamma be a group that is generic in an appropriate model for random groups, let MM be a compact manifold, and consider an action of Γ\Gamma on MM. A smooth volume form is a nowhere-vanishing smooth top-degree differential form on MM. Smooth-volume-preservation conjecture. Any action of a generic group Γ\Gamma on a compact manifold MM preserves a smooth volume form. This is proposed as a concrete statement that would reduce Gromov's conjecture to the paper's main theorem. The appropriate model for random groups is not specified, and the conjecture remains open in the source.

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David Fisher and Lior Silberman, “Groups not acting on manifolds”, arXiv:0801.0875 (2008).

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