Maximal volume representations are Fuchsian

DOI10.1007/S10711-005-9033-0MaRDI QIDQ2494099zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefano Francaviglia, Ben Klaff

Publication date 16 June 2006

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411050

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic geometrynatural mapsrigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10)

Abstract: We prove a volume-rigidity theorem for fuchsian representations of fundamental groups of hyperbolic k-manifolds into Isom(H^n). Namely, we show that if M is a complete hyperbolic k-manifold with finite volume, then the volume of any representation of its fundamental group into Isom(H^n), 3 <= k <= n, is less than the volume of M, and the volume is maximal if and only if the representation is discrete, faithful and ``k-fuchsian.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a complete hyperbolic \(k\)-manifold with finite volume (\(k\geq 3\)). Then the universal covering space \(\widetilde M\) is the hyperbolic \(k\)-space \({\mathbf H}^k\) and there is a representation \(\rho:\pi_1(M)\to \text{Isom}({\mathbf H}^k)\) such that \(\rho\) is faithful and discrete, and the volume of \(\rho\) is equal to the volume of \(M\). (The definition of the volume of a representation is given in the section 2). Inversely, is for a given representation \(\rho:\pi_1(M)\to \text{Isom}({\mathbf H}^n)\) (\(k\leq n\)), the volume of \(\rho\) is related to \(\text{Vol}(M)\)? Dunfield showed that \(\text{Vol}(\rho) \leq \text{Vol}(M)\) for \(k=n=3\) closed \(M\). (The equality holds only when \(\rho\) is the above elementary example.) In this paper the authors give the full answer for any \(k\) and \(n\) (\(3\leq k\leq n\)). We consider a pseudo-developing map \(D : {\widetilde M}\to {\mathbf H}^n\), that is, \(D\) is a piecewise smooth \(\rho\)-equivariant map. Such a map can be constructed for any \(\rho\) (not unique). \(D\) has a volume and \(\text{Vol}(\rho)\) is defined by the minimum of \(\text{Vol}(D)\) for any pseudo-developing map \(D\) of \(\rho\). So if \(M\) is closed, mainly it is good to show the existence of \(D\) such that \(\text{Vol}(D) \leq \text{Vol}(M)\), and it is shown in the former paper of the first author. If \(M\) is not closed but \(M\) has a finite volume, the problem is very difficult. The main route is similar and it is good to find out a `good' map \(D : {\widetilde M}\to {\mathbf H}^n\) with good properties around its ends. The authors succeed to find such a map within short pages.

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