Notes on the Schwarzian tensor and measured foliations at infinity of quasifuchsian manifolds

arXiv1708.01852MaRDI QIDQ6289835FDOQ6289835

Authors: Jean-Marc Schlenker 

Publication date: 6 August 2017

Abstract: The boundary at infinity of a quasifuchsian hyperbolic manifold is equiped with a holomorphic quadratic differential. Its horizontal measured foliation $f$ can be interpreted as the natural analog of the measured bending lamination on the boundary of the convex core. This analogy leads to a number of questions. We provide a variation formula for the renormalized volume in terms of the extremal length $ext(f)$ of $f$, and an upper bound on $ext(f)$. We then describe two extensions of the holomorphic quadratic differential at infinity, both valid in higher dimensions. One is in terms of Poincar'e-Einstein metrics, the other (specifically for conformally flat structures) of the second fundamental form of a hypersurface in a "constant curvature" space with a degenerate metric, interpreted as the space of horospheres in hyperbolic space. This clarifies a relation between linear Weingarten surfaces in hyperbolic manifolds and Monge-Amp`ere equations.

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