Classification of the conjugacy classes of SL (2, R)

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2024.125626MaRDI QIDQ6656076zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Christian Táfula

Publication date 2 January 2025

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.EXMATH.2024.125626

zbMATH Keywords

\(\operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})\)conjugacy classesuniversal covering group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Conjugacy classes for groups (20E45) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46)

Review text

Let \(\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}}(2,\mathbb{R})\) be the universal covering group of \(\mathrm{PSL}_{2}(\mathbb{R})\). The goal of the paper under review is to classify the conjugacy classes of the non-central elements \(\alpha \in \widetilde{\mathrm{SL}}(2,\mathbb{R})\). In particular the author shows that the conjugacy of \(\alpha\) may be determined by three invariants: (i) the trace of the image of \(\alpha\) in \(\mathrm{PSL}_{2}(\mathbb{R})\); (ii) direction type: the sign behavior of the induced self-homeomorphism of \(\mathbb{R}\) determined by the lifting \(\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}}(2,\mathbb{R}) \curvearrowright \mathbb{R}\) of the action \(\mathrm{PSL}_{2}(\mathbb{R}) \curvearrowright \mathbb{S}^{1}\) and (iii) the function \(\ell^{\sharp}\): a conjugacy invariant length function introduced by \textit{S. Mochizuki} in [Res. Math. Sci. 3, Paper No. 6, 21 p. (2016; Zbl 1401.14134)]. The direction type and \(\ell^{\sharp}\) function are invariant under conjugation in \(\widetilde{\textrm{Homeo}}_{+}(\mathbb{S}^{1})\).

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