David Fisher
Preprints and publications:

  1. Quasi-isometric embeddings of symmetric spaces, joint with K.Whyte, in preparation.
  2. Bending group actions and cohomology of arithmetic groups, in preparation.
  3. Harmonic maps and cocycle superrigidity, joint with T.Hitchman, in preparation.
  4. Groups acting on Manifolds: around the Zimmer program, survey article, to appear in Festschrift for R.J.Zimmer, (download pdf file).
  5. Groups not acting on manifolds, with Lior Silberman,  to appear IMRN, (download pdf file).
  6. Coarse differentiation of quasi-isometries II: rigidity for Sol and Lamplighter groups, with A.Eskin and K.Whyte, (download  ps  file or pdf  file).
  7. Mostow's strong rigidity theorem, short descriptive article for Princeton Companion to Mathematics, differs slightly from published version (download pdf file).
  8. Strengthening Kazhdan's Property $(T)$ by Bochner Methods, submitted,  with T.Hitchman (download pdf file).
  9. Coarse differentiation of quasi-isometries I: spaces not quasi-isometric to Cayley graphs, with A.Eskin and K.Whyte, (download  ps  file or pdf  file).
  10. Quasi-isometries and rigidity of solvable groups, with A.Eskin and K.Whyte, (download  ps  file or pdf  file),  Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly 3 (2007) 927-947.
  11. First cohomology and local rigidity of group actions, to appear Annals of Math, (download pdf file), 29 pages.
  12. First cohomology, rigidity and deformations of group actions, preprint (download pdf  file), 10 pages.
  13. Local Rigidity: Past, Present, Future, (download  ps  file or pdf  file), in Dynamics, Ergodic Theory and Geometry (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications)}, 45-98, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  14. Deformations of group actions,  (download  ps  file), Trans. AMS, 360 (2008), 491-505.
  15. Out(F_n) and the spectral gap conjecture, (download  ps  file or pdf  file) IMRN (2006) Art. ID 26028, 9 pp.
  16. Cocycle Superrigidity and Harmonic maps with infinite dimensional targets, joint with T.J.Hitchman, (download pdf  file), IMRN (2006) 72405, 1--19.
  17. Non-ergodic actions, cocycles, and superrigidity,  joint with D. Witte Morris and K.Whyte(download  ps  file) New York Journal Math. 10  (2004) 249-269.
  18. When is a group action determined by its orbit structure? joint with K.Whyte, (download  ps  file) GAFA 13 (2003), 1189-1200.
  19. Local rigidity of affine  actions of higher rank groups and lattices, joint with G.A. Margulis, to appear Annals of Math, (download  ps  file).
  20. Almost isometric actions,  property T, and local rigidity, joint with G.A.Margulis, (download  ps  file) Inventiones Math. 162 (2005) 19-80.
  21. Local rigidity for cocycles, joint with G.A.Margulis, in Surv. Diff. Geom. Vol VIII, refereed volume in honor of Calabi, Lawson, Siu and Uhlenbeck , editor: S.T. Yau, 2003, 191-234. (download  ps  file)
  22. Research announcement for the three preceeding items, updated version  (download ps file).
  23. Nonexistence of invariant rigid structures and invariant almost rigid structures, joint with E.J.Benveniste, In Comm.  Anal. Geom. 13 (2005) 89-111. (download ps file).
  24. Geometric lattice actions, entropy and fundamental groups, joint with R.J.Zimmer. In Comment. Math. Helv. 77 (2002)  326-338.  (download ps file)
  25. Rigid geometric structures and representations of fundamental groups. In  Rigidity in Geometry and Dynamics, eds. M.Burger, A.Iozzi, Springer-Verlag, 2002. (download ps file).
  26. Continuous quotients for lattice actions on compact manifolds. Joint with Kevin Whyte. In  Geometriae Ded. 2001 (87)  181-189. (download ps file)
  27. On the arithmetic structure of lattice actions on compact spaces. In Ergodic Theory and Dyn. Sys. 22 (2002) 1141-1168. (download ps file).
  28. A canonical arithmetic quotient for actions of higher rank lattices. In Israel J. Math. 124 (2001) 143-155. (download ps file).

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