Discreteness criteria and the hyperbolic geometry of palindromes

DOI10.1090/S1088-4173-09-00191-XMaRDI QIDQ3559528zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jane Gilman, Linda Keen

Publication date 6 May 2010

Published in Conformal Geometry and Dynamics of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3488

zbMATH Keywords

palindromessubgroups of \(PSL(2,\mathbb C)\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40)

Abstract: We consider non-elementary representations of two generator free groups in $PSL(2,mathbbC)$, not necessarily discrete or free, $G=<A,B>$. A word in $A$ and $B$, $W(A,B)$, is a palindrome if it reads the same forwards and backwards. A word in a free group is {sl primitive} if it is part of a minimal generating set. Primitive elements of the free group on two generators can be identified with the positive rational numbers. We study the geometry of palindromes and the action of $G$ in $H{H}^3$ whether or not $G$ is discrete. We show that there is a {sl core geodesic} $L$ in the convex hull of the limit set of $G$ and use it to prove three results: the first is that there are well defined maps from the non-negative rationals and from the primitive elements to $L$; the second is that $G$ is geometrically finite if and only if the axis of every non-parabolic palindromic word in $G$ intersects $L$ in a compact interval; the third is a description of the relation of the pleating locus of the convex hull boundary to the core geodesic and to palindromic elements.

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