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# Local rigidity of partially hyperbolic actions

• We prove the local differentiable rigidity of partially hyperbolic abelian algebraic high-rank actions on compact homogeneous spaces obtained from simple indefinite orthogonal and unitary groups. The conclusions are based on geometric Katok-Damjanovic way and progress towards computations of the Schur multipliers of these non-split groups.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 37C85.

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