Projective structures inducing covering maps (Q1902018)

The author considers parametrization of the projective structures on a compact Riemann surface \(S\) of genus \(\geq 2\). The pullback of a projective structure on \(S\) determines a projective structure on the universal covering space \(\widetilde U\) of \(S\), and the analytic continuation of the projective coordinate charts defines a local homeomorphism \(f: \widetilde U\to \overline C\), called developing map. If \(U\) is the unit disk the developing map is a meromorphic local homeomorphism, and the covering transformation group is the Fuchsian group \(\Gamma\) acting on \(U\). In the paper under review, one considers a particular class of projective structures, called bounded projective structure, whose developing maps are covering. A homomorphism \(\xi: \Gamma\to \text{Mob}\) (Mob is the set of Möbius transformations) defines a monodromy representation of the projective structure. The fundamental result of the paper states that if the kernels of two monodromy representations of the projective structures in the set \({\mathcal S}(\Gamma)\) of quadratic differential are the same, then they are conformally conjugated. As an application of this result it is given a rather complete information about connection on \({\mathcal S}(\Gamma)\) restricted to geometrically finite function groups. Moreover, it is shown that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the kernels of monodromy representations and the connected components of projective structures in the geometrically finite subset of \({\mathcal S}(\Gamma)\).