On the moduli space of quadruples of points in the boundary of complex hyperbolic space

DOI10.1007/S00031-010-9086-5MaRDI QIDQ707905zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Heleno Cunha, Nikolay Gusevskii

Publication date 8 October 2010

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2159

zbMATH Keywords

boundary of complex hyperbolic spaceCartan invariantcomplex cross-ratiocomplex hyperbolic spaceGram matrixmoduli space of quadruples

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complex-analytic moduli problems (32G13) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Global differential geometry of Hermitian and Kählerian manifolds (53C55)

Abstract: We consider the space $mathcalM$ of ordered quadruples of distinct points in the boundary of complex hyperbolic $n$-space, $chn,$ up to its holomorphic isometry group $mPU(n,1).$ One of the important problems in complex hyperbolic geometry is to construct and describe a moduli space for $mathcalM$. For $n=2$, this problem was considered by Falbel, Parker, and Platis. The main purpose of this paper is to construct a moduli space for $mathcalM$ for any dimension $ngeq1$. The major innovation in our paper is the use of the Gram matrix instead of a standard position of points.

Review text

Let \(\mathbb{C} H^n\) be the complex hyperbolic space and \(\partial \mathbb{C} H^n\) its boundary with the natural action of the projective pseudo-unitary group \(PU(1,n)\). The authors describe the moduli space \(\mathcal{M}\) of quadruples in \(\partial \mathbb{C}H^n\), that is, the space of ordered quadruples defined up to a transformation from \(PU(1,n)\). Using the complex cross-ratio \(X(p_1,p_2,p_3,p_4) \) of four points \(p_i, \, i= 1,2,3,4\) and the Cartan invariant, they construct an injective map \[ \tau : \mathcal{M} \to \mathbb{C}^2 \times \mathbb{R} \] and describe its image by an equation and inequalities. The space \(\partial \mathbb{C} H^n\) is identified with the projectivization \(PV_0\) of the cone \(V_0\) of isotropic vectors in the pseudo-Hermitian vector space \(V\) of signature \((1,n)\) and the cross-ratio of four points \(p_i\) is defined in terms of the scalar product between their lift to \(V_0\).

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