Relatively dominated representations (Q2115503)

Anosov representations give a higher-rank analogue of convex cocompactness in rank-one Lie groups and share many of its good geometric and dynamical properties. In a prior work [``Relativizing characterizations of Anosov subgroups. I'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1807.00160}], \textit{M. Kapovich} and \textit{B. Leeb} proposed several relative versions of the Anosov condition. In this paper the author proposes another version which is inspired by the characterization of Anosov representations by \textit{J. Bochi} et al. [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 21, No. 11, 3343--3414 (2019; Zbl 1429.22011)] and makes essential use of the theory of relatively hyperbolic groups. \textit{M. Kapovich} et al. [Geom. Topol. 22, No. 7, 3827--3923 (2018; Zbl 1454.53048)] showed that existence of Anosov representations implies that a finitely generated group \(\Gamma\) is word-hyperbolic. An alternative proof of this result was given by Bochi, Potrie and Sambarino [loc. cit.] who used the notion of dominated representations. The author introduces relative version of dominated representations and proves that groups admitting relatively dominated representations must be relatively hyperbolic and that these representations induce limit maps with good properties. Although the approach in this paper is different from that of Kapovich and Leeb, who focus on the geometry of the symmetric spaces while the author looks more at the intrinsic geometry associated to the relatively hyperbolic group, the notion of relatively dominated representations appears to be closely related to relatively RCA representations of Kapovich and Leeb. A key technical ingredient of the proofs is a powerful recent generalization of the Oseledets theorem proved by \textit{A. Quas} et al. [Dyn. Syst. 34, No. 3, 517--560 (2019; Zbl 1417.47006)]. A proof of a mild generalization of a special case of this result which is used in the paper is given in an appendix.