On Moebius and conformal maps between boundaries of CAT(-1) spaces

DOI10.5802/AIF.2961MaRDI QIDQ746912zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kingshook Biswas

Publication date 21 October 2015

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6212

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathrm{CAT}(-1)\) spaceconformalcross-ratioMöbius

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rigidity results (53C24)

Abstract: We consider Moebius and conformal homeomorphisms $f:partialXopartialY$ between boundaries of CAT(-1) spaces $X,Y$ equipped with visual metrics. A conformal map $f$ induces a topological conjugacy of the geodesic flows of $X$ and $Y$, which is flip-equivariant if $f$ is Moebius. We define a function $S(f):partia{l}^{2}XomathbbR$, the {it integrated Schwarzian} of $f$, which measures the deviation of the topological conjugacy from being flip-equivariant, in particular vanishing if $f$ is Moebius. Conversely if $X,Y$ are simply connected complete manifolds with pinched negative sectional curvatures, then $f$ is Moebius on any open set $UsubsetpartialX$ such that $S(f)$ vanishes on $partia{l}^{2}U$. Indeed we obtain an explicit formula for the cross-ratio distortion in terms of the integrated Schwarzian. For such manifolds, we show that there is a Moebius homeomorphism $f:partialXopartialY$ if and only if there is a topological conjugacy of geodesic flows $phi:T^{1}Xo{T}^{1}Y$ with a certain uniform continuity property along geodesics. We show that if $X,Y$ are proper, geodesically complete CAT(-1) spaces then any Moebius homeomorphism $f$ extends to a $(1,log2)$-quasi-isometry with image $frac12log2$-dense in $Y$. We prove that if $X,Y$ are in addition metric trees then $f$ extends to a surjective isometry. For $C^1$ conformal maps $f:partialXopartialY$ with bounded integrated Schwarzian and with domain $X$ a simply connected negatively curved manifold with a lower bound on sectional curvature, similar arguments show that $f$ extends to a $(1,log2+12||S(f)|{|}_{infty})$ quasi-isometry. We also obtain a dynamical classification of Moebius self-maps $f:partialXopartialX$ into three types, elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic.

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