Centralizer Rigidity near Elements of the Weyl Chamber Flow

Abstract

In this paper, we prove centralizer rigidity near an element of the Weyl chamber flow on a semisimple Lie group. We show that a volume preserving perturbation of an element of the Weyl chamber flow on a quotient $G/Γ$ of an $\mathbb{R}$-split, simple Lie group $G$ either has centralizer of dimension $0$ or $1$, or is smoothly conjugate to an element of the Weyl chamber flow. We also acquire a general condition for the centralizer of a partially hyperbolic diffeomorphism to be a Lie group.