Classification of joinings for Kleinian groups (Q320243): Difference between revisions

In the 1980s, Ratner classified the ergodic measures for the action of unipotent subgroups on the quotient \(\Gamma\backslash G\) of a connected Lie group \(G\) by a lattice \(\Gamma\). This impressive work generalizes Ratner's results to the case where \(\Gamma\) is no longer a lattice. More precisely, it focuses on \(G=\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb R)\), \(\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb C)\), takes \(\Gamma\) to be a geometrically finite Zariski dense subgroup of \(G\), and classifies (locally finite) ergodic measures for the action of a horospherical subgroup on \(\Gamma\backslash G\).