Rigidity of weakly hyperbolic actions of higher real rank semisimple Lie groups and their lattices

Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 121-164

  Margulis, Gregory A ^a   Qian, Nantian ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0035631399     PISSN: 01433857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0143385701001109     Document Type: Article

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