The Stuck--Zimmer conjecture

Let GG be a semisimple Lie group of rank at least 22, and let a p.m.p. action of GG be irreducible, meaning that every factor of GG acts ergodically. An action is essentially free when almost every point has trivial stabilizer, and transitive when it has a single orbit up to null sets. The Stuck--Zimmer conjecture. Every irreducible p.m.p. action of GG is essentially free or transitive, without assuming that GG has Kazhdan's property (T)(T). The theorem is known when at least one factor of GG has property (T)(T), as confirmed by Hartman and Tamuz, but remains open in general; the first case mentioned in the source is G=SL2(R)×SL2(R)G=\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})\times\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{R}).

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Tsachik Gelander, “Things we can learn by considering random locally symmetric manifolds”, arXiv:2407.21208 (2025).

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