Moments of a length function on the boundary of a hyperbolic manifold

DOI10.2140/AGT.2015.15.1909zbMATH Open1334.53087arXiv1303.6494OpenAlexW1838485047MaRDI QIDQ498725FDOQ498725

Authors: Nicholas G. Vlamis 

Publication date: 29 September 2015

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we will study the statistics of the unit geodesic flow normal to the boundary of a hyperbolic manifold with non-empty totally geodesic boundary. Viewing the time it takes this flow to hit the boundary as a random variable, we derive a formula for its moments in terms of the orthospectrum. The first moment gives the average time for the normal flow acting on the boundary to again reach the boundary, which we connect to Bridgeman's identity (in the surface case), and the zeroth moment recovers Basmajian's identity. Furthermore, we are able to give explicit formulae for the first moment in the surface case as well as for manifolds of odd dimension. In dimension two, the summation terms are dilogarithms. In dimension three, we are able to find the moment generating function for this length function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6494

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zbMATH Keywords

momentslength functionorthospectrumBasmajian's identityidentities on hyperbolic manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Hyperbolic and Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds (32Q45) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40)

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