Proper affine actions and geodesic flows of hyperbolic surfaces

DOI10.4007/ANNALS.2009.170.1051zbMATH Open1193.57001arXivmath/0406247OpenAlexW1990569157MaRDI QIDQ972559FDOQ972559

Authors: François Labourie, William M. Goldman, Gregory Margulis 

Publication date: 20 May 2010

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give necessary and sufficient conditions for an affine deformation of a Schottky subgroup of O(2,1) to act properly on affine space. There exists a real-valued biaffine map between the cohomology of the Schottky group and the space of geodesic currents on the corresponding hyperbolic surface S. For a fixed cohomology class, this map is uniformly positive or uniformly negative on the space of geodesic currents if and only if the corresponding affine deformation is proper. As a corollary, the deformation space of proper affine deformations is an open convex cone.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406247

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zbMATH Keywords

homogeneous bundleaffine connectionflat vector bundleflat affine bundleflat Lorentzian metricgeodesic currentproper action, hyperbolic surface, Schottky group, geodesic flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

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