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Rigidity of invariant convex sets in symmetric spaces

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The main result implies that a proper convex subset of an irreducible higher rank symmetric space cannot have Zariski dense stabilizer.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Bruce Kleiner

  2. Mathematisches Institut, Universität München, Theresienstr. 39, 80333, München, Germany

    Bernhard Leeb

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Kleiner, B., Leeb, B. Rigidity of invariant convex sets in symmetric spaces. Invent. math. 163, 657–676 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-005-0471-y

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