Fuchsian affine actions of surface groups.

DOI10.4310/JDG/1090349279MaRDI QIDQ1609838zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors François Labourie

Publication date 15 August 2002

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0005255

zbMATH Keywords

Anosov flowsurface groupaffine actionsFuchsian actionMargulis' invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Dynamics induced by group actions other than (mathbb{Z}) and (mathbb{R}), and (mathbb{C}) (37C85) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

Abstract: We define a fuchsian affine action of a surface group to be such that the linear part factors through a representation of $SL(2,mathbbR)$. We prove a fuchsian affine action of a surface group is never proper.

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