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 grouppattern 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.

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