Global Rigidity of Higher Rank Anosov Actions on Tori and Nilmanifolds
  We show that sufficiently irreducible Anosov actions of higher rank abelian groups on tori and nilmanifolds are smoothly conjugate to affine actions. 
David Fisher, Boris Kalinin, Ralf Spatzier, James F. Davis
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