Pinching surface groups in complex hyperbolic plane

DOI10.1023/A:1023641601901MaRDI QIDQ1397896zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Igor Belegradek

Publication date 6 August 2003

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0109169

zbMATH Keywords

closed orientable surfacefundamental groupToledo invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We construct first examples of discrete geometrically finite subgroups of PU(2,1) which contain parabolic elements, and are isomorphic to surface groups.

Review text

The paper contains the proof of the following theorem: Let \(M\) be a closed orientable surface of genus \(g\geq 2\) and \(\gamma\in\pi = \pi _1(M)\) be a non-trivial element represented by a simple closed loop separating \(M\). Then there exists a discrete faithful representation \(\rho :\pi\to\;\)PU(2,1) such that: (1) \(\rho (\pi )\) is geometrically finite, (2) any maximal parabolic group of \(\rho (\pi )\) is generated by a conjugate of \(\rho (\gamma )\), (3) the quotient \(H^2_{\mathbb C}/\rho (\pi )\) is diffeomorphic to \(TM\), and (4) the Toledo invariant \(\tau (\rho )\) vanishes.

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