Flows, fixed points and rigidity for Kleinian groups

DOI10.1007/S00039-012-0165-8MaRDI QIDQ1938485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kingshook Biswas

Publication date 4 February 2013

Published in Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.2419

zbMATH Keywords

Kleinian group pattern rigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We study the closed group of homeomorphisms of the boundary of real hyperbolic space generated by a cocompact Kleinian group

G_{1}

and a quasiconformal conjugate

h^{- 1} G_{2} h

of a cocompact group

G_{2}

. We show that if the conjugacy

h

is not conformal then this group contains a non-trivial one parameter subgroup. This leads to rigidity results; for example, Mostow rigidity is an immediate consequence. We are also able to prove a relative version of Mostow rigidity, called pattern rigidity. For a cocompact group

G

, by a

G

-invariant pattern we mean a

G

-invariant collection of closed proper subsets of the boundary of hyperbolic space which is discrete in the space of compact subsets minus singletons. Such a pattern arises for example as the collection of translates of limit sets of finitely many infinite index quasiconvex subgroups of

G

. We prove that (in dimension at least three) for

G_{1}, G_{2}

cocompact Kleinian groups, any quasiconformal map pairing a

G_{1}

-invariant pattern to a

G_{2}

-invariant pattern must be conformal. This generalizes a previous result of Schwartz who proved rigidity in the case of limit sets of cyclic subgroups, and Biswas-Mj who proved rigidity for Poincare Duality subgroups.

Review text

In this paper the author discusses the problem of pattern rigidity in real hyperbolic space \({\mathbb H}^{N} (\geq 3)\). Let \(\mathcal C\) denote the space of proper closed subsets of \(\partial{\mathbb H}^{N}\) which contain at least two points, endowed with the Hausdorff topology. Given a cocompact Kleinian group \(G\), a \(G\)-symmetric pattern is a nonempty discrete subset \(\mathcal J\) of \(\mathcal C\) invariant under \(G\). Let \(G_{i}, i=1,2\) be cocompact Kleinian groups and let \({\mathcal J}_{i}\) be \(G_{i}\)-symmetric patterns. If \(h\) is a quasi-conformal map of \(\partial{\mathbb H}^{N}\) such that \(h({\mathcal J}_{1}) ={\mathcal J}_{2}\), then the closed group of homeomorphisms \({\hat G} = \overline{<G_{1}, h^{-1}G_{2}h>}\) preserves the pattern \({\mathcal J}_{1}\). If this map \(h\) is not conformal, then the group \({\hat G}\) contains a non-trivial one parameter subgroup conformally conjugate to a flow of real affine maps. Local discreteness of patterns implies that a pattern cannot be invariant under continuous flow of maps. These facts lead to the following main result: Theorem 1.2. For \(N\geq 3\), suppose that \(G_{i}, i=1,2\) are cocompact Kleinian groups and \({\mathcal J}_{i}\) are \(G_{i}\)-symmetric patterns. If \(h\) is a quasi-conformal homeomorphism such that \(h({\mathcal J}_{1}) ={\mathcal J}_{2}\), then \(h\) must be conformal. Moreover \(G_{1}\) and \(h^{-1}G_{2}h\) are commensurable.

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