Deformations of fundamental group representations and earthquakes on SO(n,1) surface groups

DOI10.1007/S10711-017-0226-0MaRDI QIDQ684213zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. L. Ho

Publication date 9 February 2018

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02644

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{CAT}(0)\) manifoldbendingconvex cocompactdeformationearthquakesFenchel-Nielsenhyperbolicquasifuchsiansurface group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric group theory (20F65) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: In this article we construct a type of deformations of representations $p{i}_1(M)ightarrowG$ where $G$ is an arbitrary lie group and $M$ is a large class of manifolds including CAT(0) manifolds. The deformations are defined based on codimension 1 hypersurfaces with certain conditions, and also on disjoint union of such hypersurfaces, i.e. multi-hypersurfaces. We show commutativity of deforming along disjoint hypersurfaces. As application, we consider Anosov surface groups in $SO(n,1)$ and show that the construction can be extended continuously to measured laminations, thus obtaining earthquake deformations on these surface groups.

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