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Stiffness for Random Walks on Locally symmetric spaces

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May 15, 2015
Keywords:
  • stationary measure
  • uniformly expanding measure
  • quotients of Lie groups
  • entropy
  • amenable groups
  • Ratner's theorem
MSC:
  • 53-xx
  • 53Cxx
  • 37-xx
  • 53C35
  • 53C24
  • 28Dxx
  • 28D20
  • 43A07
Abstract
Let G be a semisimple Lie group, and \Gamma a lattice. in G. Let \mu be a measure on G. We show that under a certain condition on \mu, any \mu-stationary measure on G/\Gamma is in fact invariant under the group generated by the support of \mu. We give an alternative argument (which bypasses the Local Limit Theorem) for some of the breakthrough results of Benoist and Quint in this area. This is joint work with Elon Lindenstrauss.