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

affine actionsAnosov flowFuchsian actionMargulis' invariantsurface group

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.

Review text

Let \(\lambda_q\) be the irreducible representation of \(SL(2,\mathbb R)\) in \(SL(q,\mathbb R)\). The author calls a subgroup of \(SL(q,\mathbb R)\) Fuchsian if it is conjugate to a discrete subgroup of \(\lambda_q(SL(2,\mathbb R))\). He proves that the fundamental group of a compact surface does not act properly on the affine space of dimension \(q\) by affine transformations if its linear part is Fuchsian. The interesting cases are the dimensions of the form \(q=4p+3\). For the case \(q=3\) this was known before. The author's proof uses a holomorphic interpretation of Margulis' invariant and a result on Anosov flows. Note that this result is in sharp contrast to the behavior of free groups.

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