Rigidity of geometric structures
``Geometric structures on a manifold \(M\) arise from a covering of \(M\) by charts with values in a homogeneous space \(G/H\), with chart transitions restrictions of elements of \(G\) (where \(G\) is a Lie group and \(H\) a closed subgroup). In this survey, the authors are interested in geometric structures on aspherical manifolds \(M\), and in particular in (irreducible) locally symmetric spaces defined by a homogeneous space \(G/K\) where \(G\) is semisimple (simple) Lie group of non-compact type and \(K\) a maximal compact subgroup. ``The search of characterizations of manifolds which admit locally symmetric metrics or, more generally, geometric structures, by some special geometric or topological properties is a fruitful line of research. Furthermore, whenever the Mostow rigidity theorem is not available, there may be a rich deformation space of such geometric structures. We survey some of the rigidity and flexibility results which can be described in terms of the topology of the manifold and length functions associated to geometric structures. In particular the authors prove that if \(\widehat M \to M\) is a finite sheeted cover, for an irreducible locally symmetric manifold \(\widehat M\) of dimension \(n\), then \(M\) is homotopy equivalent to an irreducible locally symmetric space (homeomorphic if \(n \ge 5\), diffeomorphic for \(n = 2, 3\)). Further topics discussed are the marked length spectrum of a manifold \(M\), its relation to cross ratios and the marked length spectrum rigidity, representations of surface groups in the isometry group \(\mathrm{PSL}(2, \mathbb C)\) of hyperbolic 3-space, and real projective structures modeled on \(\mathrm{PSL}(n, \mathbb R)/H\) (and Hilbert metrics and Hitchin components).
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- Anosov flows, surface groups and curves in projective space
- Bouts des variétés hyperboliques de dimension 3. (Ends of hyperbolic 3-dimensional manifolds)
- Cannon-Thurston maps for surface groups
- Canonical perturbation theory of Anosov systems and regularity results for the Livsic cohomology equation
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- Counting hyperbolic manifolds
- Deformation spaces associated to compact hyperbolic manifolds
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- Ergodic properties of function groups
- Foundations of hyperbolic manifolds
- Geodesic flows
- Groups of homotopy spheres. I
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- Hyperbolic 5-manifolds that fiber over \(S^1\)
- Hyperbolic convex sets and quasisymmetric functions
- Hyperbolic manifolds and discrete groups
- Le spectre marqué des longueurs des surfaces à courbure négative. (The spectrum marked by lengths of surfaces with negative curvature)
- Lie groups and Teichmüller space
- Manifolds with non-positive curvature
- Moduli spaces of local systems and higher Teichmüller theory
- Negatively Curved Manifolds with Exotic Smooth Structures
- On Discrete Groups of Mobius Transformations
- On the cross-ratio at the boundary of CAT(-1)-spaces
- Pinching constants for hyperbolic manifolds
- Riemannian hyperbolization
- Rigidity and deformation spaces of strictly convex real projective structures on compact manifolds
- Rigidity and other topological aspects of compact nonpositively curved manifolds
- Rigidity for surfaces of non-positive curvature
- Shrinkwrapping and the taming of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
- Simple length rigidity for Hitchin representations
- Simple length rigidity for Kleinian surface groups and applications
- Spectral rigidity of a compact negatively curved manifold
- Strong Rigidity of Locally Symmetric Spaces. (AM-78)
- Subgroup growth and congruence subgroups
- Survey on aspherical manifolds
- The Borel conjecture for hyperbolic and CAT(0)-groups
- The classification of Kleinian surface groups. II: The Ending lamination conjecture
- The Double Limit Theorem and Its Legacy
- The geometry of Teichmüller space via geodesic currents
- The marked length spectrum of a projective manifold or orbifold
- The marked length spectrum of Anosov manifolds
- The pressure metric for Anosov representations
- Time-preserving conjugacies of geodesic flows
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