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In this note we answer a question of Peter Neumann, based on some earlier more general questions of R. Zimmer concerning actions of arithmetic groups and Lie groups on manifolds. The main question of Zimmer is the following.
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Macpherson, D. (1996). Permutation Groups Whose Subgroups Have Just Finitely Many Orbits. In: Holland, W.C. (eds) Ordered Groups and Infinite Permutation Groups. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 354. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3443-9_8
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