Some new behaviour in the deformation theory of Kleinian groups

DOI10.4310/CAG.2001.V9.N4.A4MaRDI QIDQ1848439zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 12 December 2003

Published in Communications in Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0010164

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldfundamental groupgeometrically finite representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: We present examples of hyperbolizable 3-manifolds $M$ with the following property. Let $CC(p{i}_1(M))$ denote the space of convex co-compact representations of $p{i}_1(M)$. We show that for every $Kgeq1$ there exists a representation $ho$ in $$ so that every $K$-quasiconformal deformation of $ho$ lies in the closure of every component of $CC(p{i}_1(M))$. The examples $M$ were discovered by Anderson and Canary.

Review text

\textit{J. W. Anderson} and \textit{R. D. Canary} [Invent Math. 126, 205-214 (1996; Zbl 0874.57012)] have constructed a series of examples of 3-manifolds \(M\) for which the space \(CC(\pi_1(M))\) of convex co-compact representations of \(\pi_1(M)\) in \(PSL_2(C)\) is disconnected, but has connected closure (in the topology of algebraic convergence). For these examples the intersection of the closures of any two path components of \(CC(\pi_1(M))\) is non-empty. In the present paper the author proves that for these examples there is a connected, uncountable set of geometrically finite representations which is contained in the closure of every path component of \(CC(\pi_1(M))\). The construction shows that in some sense this set can be chosen to be ``large, in that given any \(K \geq 1\) the set contains all of the \(K\)-quasiconformal deformations of some geometrically finite representation of \(\pi_1(M)\) (this representation depending on \(K\)).

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