Mathematics – Dynamical Systems
Scientific paper
2011-07-23
Mathematics
Dynamical Systems
33 pages; added one-paragraph subsection 1.3; made minor typographical adjustments
Scientific paper
We study the smooth untwisted cohomology with real coefficients for the action on [SL(2, R) \times \cdot \cdot \cdot \times SL(2, R)]/{\Gamma} by the subgroup of diagonal matrices, where {\Gamma} is an irreducible lattice. In the top degree, we show that the obstructions to solving the coboundary equation come from distributions that are invariant under the action. In intermediate degrees, we show that the cohomology trivializes. It has been conjectured by A. and S. Katok that, for a standard partially hyperbolic R^d- or Z^d-action, the obstructions to solving the top-degree coboundary equation are given by periodic orbits, in analogy to Livsic's theorem for Anosov flows, and that the intermediate cohomology trivializes, as it is known to do in the first degree, by work of Katok and Spatzier. Katok and Katok proved their conjecture for abelian groups of toral automorphisms. For diagonal subgroup actions on SL(2, R)^d /{\Gamma}, our results verify the "intermediate cohomology" part of the conjecture, and are a step in the direction of the "top-degree cohomology" part.
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