Infinite energy equivariant harmonic maps, domination, and anti-de Sitter 3-manifolds

DOI10.4310/JDG/1689262064arXiv1911.06937OpenAlexW2986920373MaRDI QIDQ6168533FDOQ6168533

Authors: Nathaniel Sagman 

Publication date: 9 August 2023

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We generalize a well-known existence and uniqueness result for equivariant harmonic maps due to Corlette, Donaldson, and Labourie to a non-compact infinite energy setting and analyze the asymptotic behaviour of the harmonic maps. When the relevant representation is Fuchsian and has hyperbolic monodromy, our construction recovers a family of harmonic maps originally studied by Wolf. We employ these maps to solve a domination problem for representations. In particular, following ideas laid out by Deroin-Tholozan, we prove that any representation from a finitely generated free group to the isometry group of a CAT$(-1)$ Hadamard manifold is strictly dominated in length spectrum by a large collection of Fuchsian ones. As an intermediate step in the proof, we obtain a result of independent interest: parametrizations of certain Teichm{"u}ller spaces by holomorphic quadratic differentials. The main consequence of the domination result is the existence of a new collection of anti-de Sitter $3$-manifolds. We also present an application to the theory of minimal immersions into the Grassmanian of timelike planes in $mathbb{R}^{2,2}$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06937

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zbMATH Keywords

length spectrumequivariant harmonic mapsdominated representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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