Discrete free Abelian central stabilizers in a higher order frame bundle

Abstract

Let a real Lie group $G$ have a $C^\infty$ action on a real manifold $M$. Assume every nontrivial element of $G$ has nowhere dense fixpoint set in $M$. First, we show, in every frame bundle, except possibly the $0$th, that each stabilizer admits no nontrivial compact subgroups. Second, we show that, if $G$ is connected, then there is a dense open $G$-invariant subset of some higher order frame bundle of $M$ such that, for any point $x$ in that subset, the stabilizer in $G$ of $x$ is a discrete, finitely-generated, free-Abelian, central subgroup of $G$. We derive several corollaries of these two results.