Lyapunov exponents for surface group representations

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2469-7zbMATH Open1367.37046arXiv1305.0049OpenAlexW1931690037MaRDI QIDQ500051FDOQ500051

Authors: Bertrand Deroin, Romain Dujardin 

Publication date: 7 October 2015

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let ( ho_la)_{lain La} be a holomorphic family of representations of a surface group pi_1(S) into PSL(2,C), where S is a topological (possibly punctured) surface with negative Euler characteristic. Given a structure of Riemann surface of finite type on S we construct a bifurcation current on the parameter space La, that is a (1,1) positive closed current attached to the bifurcations of the family. It is defined as the $d{d}^c$ of the Lyapunov exponent of the representation with respect to the Brownian motion on the Riemann surface S, endowed with its Poincare metric. We show that this bifurcation current describes the asymptotic distribution of various codimension 1 phenomena in La. For instance, the random hypersurfaces of La defined by the condition that a random closed geodesic on S is mapped under ho_la to a parabolic element or the identity are asymptotically equidistributed with respect to the bifurcation current. The proofs are based on our previous work "Random walks, Kleinian groups, and bifurcation currents", and on a careful control of a discretization procedure of the Brownian motion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.0049

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zbMATH Keywords

Brownian motionLyapunov exponentRiemann surfacegroup representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Currents (32U40) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45)

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