Invariant measures and stiffness for non Abelian actions on tori
Speaker:
Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Studies
Date and Time:
Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 11:00am to 11:45am
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
We present an affirmative solution to some questions raised by Furstenberg and Margulis on the action of certain SLd (Z) subgroups on tori.The method involves additive combinatorics.