Zimmer's volume-preserving low-dimensional action conjecture

Let GG be a semisimple Lie group with property (T)(T) and let Γ\Gamma be a lattice in GG. Let dd be the least dimension of an infinite-image linear representation and nn the least dimension of a compact homogeneous space through which a lattice action can factor. Assume that Γ\Gamma acts smoothly on a compact manifold MM preserving a volume form. Zimmer's volume-preserving conjecture. If dim(M)<d\dim(M)<d, the action is isometric; if additionally dim(M)<n\dim(M)<n or Γ\Gamma is non-uniform, the action is finite. The conjecture is the volume-preserving form attributed to Zimmer and remains open in this generality.

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David Fisher, “Groups acting on manifolds: around the Zimmer program”, arXiv:0809.4849 (2008).

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