Non-stationary smooth geometric structures for contracting measurable cocycles

We implement a differential-geometric approach to normal forms for contracting measurable cocycles to \mbox{Diff}^q({\bf R}^n, {\bf 0}), $q \geq2$. We obtain resonance polynomial normal forms for the contracting cocycle and its centralizer, via $C^q$ changes of coordinates. These are interpreted as nonstationary invariant differential-geometric structures. We also consider the case of contracted foliations in a manifold, and obtain $C^q$ homogeneous structures on leaves for an action of the group of subresonance polynomial diffeomorphisms together with translations

C^1 Deformations of almost-Grassmannian structures with strongly essential symmetry

We construct a family of $(2,n)$-almost Grassmannian structures of regularity $C^1$, each admitting a one-parameter group of strongly essential automorphisms, and each not flat on any neighborhood of the higher-order fixed point. This shows that Theorem 1.3 of [9] does not hold assuming only $C^1$ regularity of the structure (see also [2, Prop 3.5]).Comment: 24 p

Conformal actions of nilpotent groups on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

We study conformal actions of connected nilpotent Lie groups on compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. We prove that if a type-(p,q) compact manifold M supports a conformal action of a connected nilpotent group H, then the degree of nilpotence of H is at most 2p+1, assuming p <= q; further, if this maximal degree is attained, then M is conformally equivalent to the universal type-(p,q), compact, conformally flat space, up to finite covers. The proofs make use of the canonical Cartan geometry associated to a pseudo-Riemannian conformal structure.Comment: 41 pages, 3 figures. Article has been shortened from previous version, and several corrections have been made according to referees' suggestion