The dynamics of (F_n) on redundant representations

DOI10.4171/GGD/197zbMATH Open1290.37003OpenAlexW2040518823MaRDI QIDQ374098FDOQ374098

Authors Tsachik Gelander, Yair N. Minsky

Publication date 28 October 2013

Published in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4774

zbMATH Keywords

ergodicitycharacter varietiesalgebraic groups\(\Aut(F_n)\)3-dimensional topologydynamical decompositionredundant representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ergodicity, mixing, rates of mixing (37A25) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Automorphism groups of groups (20F28) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40)

Abstract: We study some dynamical properties of the canonical Aut(F_n)-action on the space R_n(G) of redundant representations of the free group F_n in G, where G is the group of rational points of a simple algebraic group over a local field. We show that this action is always minimal and ergodic, confirming a conjecture of A. Lubotzky. On the other hand for the classical cases where G=SL(2,R) or SL(2,C) we show that the action is not weak mixing, in the sense that the diagonal action on R_n(G)^2 is not ergodic.

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