Representations of complex hyperbolic lattices into rank 2 classical Lie groups of Hermitian type

DOI10.1007/S10711-008-9288-3MaRDI QIDQ956699zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vincent Koziarz, Julien Maubon

Publication date 25 November 2008

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703174

zbMATH Keywords

complex hyperbolic spaceHermitian symmetric spaceHiggs bundleKähler manifoldlatticeMilnor-Wood inequalityrigiditysymmetric space of noncompact typeToledo invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Rigidity results (53C24) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35) Harmonic maps, etc. (58E20)

Abstract: Let G be either SU(p,2) with p>=2, Sp(2,R) or SO(p,2) with p>=3. The symmetric spaces associated to these G's are the classical bounded symmetric domains of rank 2, with the exceptions of SO*(8)/U(4) and SO*(10)/U(5). Using the correspondence between representations of fundamental groups of K"{a}hler manifolds and Higgs bundles we study representations of uniform lattices of SU(m,1), m>1, into G. We prove that the Toledo invariant associated to such a representation satisfies a Milnor-Wood type inequality and that in case of equality necessarily G=SU(p,2) with p>=2m and the representation is reductive, faithful, discrete, and stabilizes a copy of complex hyperbolic space (of maximal possible induced holomorphic sectional curvature) holomorphically and totally geodesically embedded in the Hermitian symmetric space SU(p,2)/S(U(p)xU(2)), on which it acts cocompactly.

Review text

This paper studies the deformations of compact complex hyperbolic manifolds of complex dimension \(m > 1\) inside Hermitian symmetric spaces of noncompact type. That is, let \(\Gamma\) be a torsionfree cocompact (uniform) lattice in \(SU(m,1)\), and let \(G\) be \(SU(p,2)\) with \(p>2\), \(Sp(2,\mathbb R)\), or \(SO(p,2)\) with \(p\geq 3\). Associated to a representation \(\rho:\Gamma\longrightarrow G\) is the Toledo invariant, \(\tau(\rho)\) which is a discrete scalar invariant, satisfying a bound generalizing the Milnor-Wood inequality. Furthermore \(\tau(\rho)\) is maximized for the representation \(\Gamma\longrightarrow G\) obtained by composing the inclusion \(\Gamma\hookrightarrow SU(m,1)\) with an embedding \(SU(m,1)\hookrightarrow G\) corresponding to a totally geodesic holomorphic embedding \(H^m_{\mathbb C} \hookrightarrow G/K\). Here the symmetric space \(G/K\) is a classical bounded symmetric domain of rank \(2\). The main result is a converse: \(\tau(\rho)\) is maximized if and only if \(\rho\) is conjugate to such an embedding. This result extends the case when \(G=SU(n,1)\) (\textit{D. Toledo} [J. Differ. Geom. 29, No.~1, 125--133 (1989; Zbl 0676.57012)] and \textit{W. M. Goldman} [Discontinuous groups and the Euler class, Thesis, Univ. of California (1980)] when \(n=1\)); the analogous question for other unitary groups \(U(p,q)\) had been established by \textit{S. B. Bradlow, O. García-Prada} and \textit{P. B. Gothen} [J. Differ. Geom. 64, No.~1, 111--170 (2003; Zbl 1070.53054)] and \textit{M. Burger, A. Iozzi} and \textit{A. Wienhard} [C. R., Math., Acad. Sci. Paris 336, No.~5, 387--390 (2003; Zbl 1035.32013)]. In particular a maximal representation in this case corresponds to an embedding \(SU(p,2) \hookrightarrow G\) (where \(p\geq 2m\)) and \(\rho\) is a discrete reductive embedding stabilizing an embedding of \(H^m_{\mathbb C} \hookrightarrow SU(p,2)/S(U(p)\times U(2))\) as holomorphic totally geodesic submanifold (of maximum possible holomorphic sectional curvature) in \(G/K\). The methods use Higgs bundle techniques similar to [Bradlow, García-Prada and Gothen (op. cit.); Geom. Dedicata 122, 185--213 (2006; Zbl 1132.14029)], first pioneered by \textit{K. Corlette} [J. Differ. Geom. 28, No.~3, 361--382 (1988; Zbl 0676.58007], \textit{N. J. Hitchin} [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc., III. Ser. 55, 59--126 (1987; Zbl 0634.53045); Topology 31, No.~3, 449--473 (1992; Zbl 0769.32008)] and \textit{C. T. Simpson} [J. Am. Math. Soc. 1, No.~4, 867--918 (1988; Zbl 0669.58008); Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 75, 5--95 (1992; Zbl 0814.32003)]. Results in the non-uniform case had been proved earlier by the authors in [Ann. Inst. Fourier 58, No.~2, 507--558 (2008; Zbl 1147.22009)].

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