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Nonstationary normal forms and rigidity of group actions. (English) Zbl 0871.58073
Summary: We develop a proper “nonstationary” generalization of the classical theory of normal forms for local contractions. In particular, it is shown under some assumptions that the centralizer of a contraction in an extension is a particular Lie group, determined by the spectrum of the linear part of the contractions. We show that most homogeneous Anosov actions of higher rank abelian groups are locally $$C^{\infty}$$ rigid (up to an automorphism).
This result is the main part in the proof of local $$C^{\infty}$$ rigidity for two very different types of algebraic actions of irreducible lattices in higher rank semisimple Lie groups: (i) the actions of cocompact lattices on Furstenberg boundaries, in particular projective spaces, and (ii) the actions by automorphisms of tori and nilmanifolds. The main new technical ingredient in the proofs is the centralizer result mentioned above.

##### MSC:
 37G05 Normal forms for dynamical systems 22E40 Discrete subgroups of Lie groups
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