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Is there an orientation preserving smooth diffeomorphism $f$ on a compact manifold $M$ such that for every $n\in \mathbb{N}$, there is a smooth diffeomorphism $g:M \to M$, as $n$th root of ...

I was reading the proof of Zimmer's cocycle super-rigidity theorem from the book 'Ergodic theory and semi-simple groups' by Robert Zimmer (Theorem 5.2.5, page 98). But I am not able to understand it. ...

Let $G$ be a topological group and let $H$ be a closed subgroup of $G$. Say $H$ is codistal in $G$ if the translation action of $G$ on the coset space $G/H$ is distal (meaning that no non-diagonal ...