Parabolic actions and transversal local rigidity | Department of Mathematics

Parabolic actions and transversal local rigidity

Event Information
Event Location: 
GAB 461, 4-5 PM; Refreshments: GAB 472, 3:30 PM
Event Date: 
Monday, November 5, 2012 - 4:00pm
Classical local rigidity KAM result says that a small perturbation of a Diophantine flow on the torus is, after a small constant modification, smoothly conjugate to the Diophantine flow. I will explain that for higher dimensional "flows" the natural corresponding notion is "transversal" local rigidity. This is proved so far for two classes of homogeneous parabolic R^2 actions, and I will discuss these examples.