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

DOI10.2140/AGT.2015.15.1909MaRDI QIDQ498725zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicholas G. Vlamis

Publication date 29 September 2015

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Basmajian's identityidentities on hyperbolic manifoldslength functionmomentsorthospectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

Let \(M\) be an \(n\)-dimensional compact hyperbolic manifold with nonempty totally geodesic boundary. Then one can define a measurable function \(L:\partial M \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) by \(L(x)=\mathrm{length}(\alpha_x)\) for \(x \in \partial M\) and \(\alpha_x\) is the geodesic emanating from \(x\) normal to \(\partial M\). In the paper under review, the author shows that \(A_k(M)\) is finite for all nonnegative integers \(k\), where \(A_k(M)\) is the \(k^{\mathrm{th}}\) moment of \(L\). In addition, the author finds a formula of \(A_k(M)\) in terms of the orthospectrum and clarifies a relation between this formula and Bridgeman's identity and Basmajian's identity.

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