Rigidity of Kleinian groups via self-joinings

DOI10.1007/S00222-023-01213-5MaRDI QIDQ6091098zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 23 November 2023

Published in Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05806

Lie groups (22Exx) Riemann surfaces (30Fxx) Ergodic theory (37Axx)

Abstract: Let

G a m m a < e x t {P S L}_{2} (m a t h b b C) s i m e q e x t {I s o m}^{+} (m a t h b b H^{3})

be a Zariski dense Kleinian group. Let

h o : G a m m a o e x t {P S L}_{2} (m a t h b b C)

be a discrete faithful Zariski dense representation with boundary map

f : L a m b d a o m a t h b b S^{2}

on the limit set. We assume that

L a m b d a

is doubly stable; this condition is always satisfied if

G a m m a

is finitely generated and

O m e g a = m a t h b b S^{2} - L a m b d a

has at least two components. We prove: if

f

is conformal on

L a m b d a

, in the sense that

f

maps every circular slice of

L a m b d a

into a circle, then

f

extends to a M"obius transformation

g

on

m a t h b b S^{2}

and

h o

is the conjugation by

g

. Moreover, unless

h o

is a conjugation, the set of circles

C s u b s e t m a t h b b S^{2}

such that

f (C c a p L a m b d a)

is contained in a circle has empty interior in the space of all circles meeting

L a m b d a

. This answers a question of McMullen on the rigidity of maps

L a m b d a o m a t h b b S^{2}

sending vertices of every tetrahedron of zero-volume to vertices of a tetrahedron of zero-volume. The novelty of our proof is a new viewpoint of relating the rigidity of

G a m m a

with the higher rank dynamics of the self-joining

(e x t i d i m e s h o) (G a m m a) < e x t {P S L}_{2} (m a t h b b C) i m e s e x t {P S L}_{2} (m a t h b b C)

.

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