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If an analytic geometric structure is rigid in the sense of Gromov (see Gromov and d'Ambra), its symmetry vector fields form a finite dimensional Lie algebra. This is not very helpful, since we don't know too many different ways to prove rigidity, but there are lots of examples in:

MR1144526 (93d:58117) Reviewed D'Ambra, G.(F-IHES); Gromov, M.(I-CAGL) Lectures on transformation groups: geometry and dynamics. Surveys in differential geometry (Cambridge, MA, 1990), 19–111, Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, PA, 1991.

For example, if a structure (for example, a pseudo-Riemannian metric) induces an affine connection (for example, the Levi--Civita connection), then it is rigid, and its Lie algebra of symmetry vector fields is finite dimensional. Similarly for a projective connection, or (in dimension 3 or more) for a conformal connection.

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