The pressure metric on the Margulis multiverse (Q1742462)

If \(\Gamma\) is a non-abelian free group with finitely many generators \(n\), \(\mathbb{A}\) the affine three-space, and \(\rho\) is an injective homomorphism of \(\Gamma\) into the affine linear group \(\text{Aff}(\mathbb{A})\), then \(L_\rho\) is the linear part of \(\rho\) and \(u_\rho\) is the translation part. In [Sov. Math., Dokl. 28, 435--439 (1983; Zbl 0578.57012)], \textit{G. A. Margulis} had shown that there exists \(\rho\) such that \(\rho(\Gamma)\) acts freely and properly on the affine space \(\mathbb{A}\) with \(L_\rho(\Gamma)\) being discrete. The quotient manifold \(M_\rho=\rho(\Gamma)/\mathbb{A}\) is a Margulis spacetime. The moduli space \({\mathcal M}\) of Margulis spacetimes with no cusps is an analytic manifold. In [Geom. Funct. Anal. 25, No. 4, 1089--1179 (2015; Zbl 1360.37078)], \textit{M. Bridgeman} et al. introduced the pressure metric for Anosov representations as generalization of Thurston's Riemannian metric on Teichmüller space, which he defined to be the Hessian of the length of a random geodesic. In this paper, the author uses the metric Anosov property to define the entropy and intersection and studies properties of the pressure metric on \({\mathcal M}\). He proves that if \({\mathcal M}_k\) is a constant entropy section of the analytic manifold \({\mathcal M}\) with entropy \(k\), and \(\text{P}\) is the pressure metric on \({\mathcal M}\), then \(({\mathcal M}_k,\text{P}_{|{\mathcal M}_k})\) is an analytic Riemannian manifold. Also, it is shown that the pressure metric \(\text{P}\) has signature \((\dim({\mathcal M})-1,0)\) over the moduli space \({\mathcal M}\). Finally, the author demonstrates an identity regarding the variation of the cross-ratios.