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Rigidity of commuting affine actions on reflexive Banach spaces

Group Theory 2012-07-17 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We give a simple argument to show that if {\alpha} is an affine isometric action of a product G x H of topological groups on a reflexive Banach space X with linear part {\pi}, then either {\pi}(H) fixes a unit vector or {\alpha}|G almost fixes a point on X. It follows that any affine isometric action of an abelian group on a reflexive Banach space X, whose linear part fixes no unit vectors, almost fixes points on X.

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@article{arxiv.1207.3731,
  title  = {Rigidity of commuting affine actions on reflexive Banach spaces},
  author = {Christian Rosendal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.3731},
  year   = {2012}
}