Flexibility of surface groups in classical groups

MaRDI QIDQ6222799zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Inkang Kim, Pierre Pansu

Publication date 6 January 2011

Abstract: We show that a surface group of high genus contained in a classical simple Lie group can be deformed to become Zariski dense, unless the Lie group is $SU(p,q)$ (resp. $S{O}^{\ast }(2n)$, $n$ odd) and the surface group is maximal in some $S(U(p,p)imesU(q-p))subsetSU(p,q)$ (resp. $S{O}^{\ast }(2n-2)imesSO(2)subsetS{O}^{\ast }(2n)$). This is a converse, for classical groups, to a rigidity result of S. Bradlow, O. Garc'{i}a-Prada and P. Gothen.

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