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Lie Groups are Groups that are additionally smooth manifolds such that the multiplication and the inverse maps are smooth.

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How can I tell whether a manifold is homogeneous?

Is Eberlein's theorem relevant to your question? If $M$ is a compact Riemannian manifold of nonpositive section curvature, Eberlein's theorem MR0674166 characterizes when $M$ is a Riemannian symmetric …
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Diffeomorphisms of the sphere conjugate to a rotation

I doubt there can be a simple answer to the first question. Even the analogous question regarding $S^1$ has no simple answer. According to work of Denjoy, given a homeomorphism $f : S^1 \to S^1$ with …
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discrete subgroups of Lie groups and actions on homogeneous spaces

Here is a simple counter-example. Let $p : S_3 \to S_2$ be a degree 2 covering map from the closed genus 3 surface to the closed genus 2 surface, inducing an index 2 injection $p_* : \pi_1(S_3) \to \p …
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Example of a manifold which is not a homogeneous space of any Lie group

I would think that many examples from 3-manifold theory would work. Take any compact, oriented, irreducible 3-manifold $M$ whose torus decomposition is nontrivial and has at least one hyperbolic piece …
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Complexification or 'real'ization of Mapping Class group.

As Misha mentions, his paper with Leeb, "Actions of discrete groups on nonpositively curved spaces" MR1411351, gives severe restrictions on CAT(0) structures on $MCG(S)$, which covers the case of latt …
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