Cross ratios, translation lengths and maximal representations

DOI10.1007/S10711-012-9707-3zbMATH Open1254.32032arXiv0908.4101OpenAlexW2076991311MaRDI QIDQ691089FDOQ691089

Authors: Tobias Hartnick, Tobias Strubel 

Publication date: 29 November 2012

Published in: Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We define a family of four-point invariants for Shilov boundaries of bounded symmetric domains of tube type, which generalizes the classical four-point cross ratio on the unit circle. This generalization, which is based on a similar construction of Clerc and {O}rsted, is functorial and well-behaved under products; these two properties determine our extension uniquely. Our generalized cross ratios can be used to estimate translation lengths of a large class of isometries of the underlying bounded symmetric domain. Our main application concerns maximal representations of surface groups with Hermitian target. For any such representation we can construct a strict cross ratio on the circle in the sense of Labourie via pullback of our generalized cross ratio along a suitable limit curve. In this context our translation length estimates then imply that maximal representations with Hermitian target are well-displacing; this implies in particular that the action of the mapping class group on the moduli space of maximal representations into a Hermitian Lie group is proper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.4101

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zbMATH Keywords

Shilov boundaryJordan algebrasbounded symmetric domaincross ratiotranslation lengthhigher Teichmüller theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Hermitian symmetric spaces, bounded symmetric domains, Jordan algebras (complex-analytic aspects) (32M15) Ideal boundary theory for Riemann surfaces (30F25)

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