Strongly dense representations of hyperbolic 3-manifold groups

DOI10.1090/PROC/17516MaRDI QIDQ6864617zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ricky Lee

Publication date 3 February 2026

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/PROC/17516

zbMATH Keywords

holonomy representationshyperbolic manifoldstrongly dense representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic 3-manifolds (57K32)

Review text

Strongly dense representations of hyperbolic \(3\)-manifold groups are defined as homomorphisms from the fundamental group of the manifold into a semisimple algebraic group \(G\) (such as \(SL(n,\mathbb R)\) or \(SU(p,q)\)) where every pair of non-commuting elements generates a Zariski dense subgroup.\N\NIn this paper, the author provides the first examples of such representations for closed hyperbolic \(3\)-manifold groups into \(SL(4,\mathbb R)\) and \(SU(3,1)\), which arise from projective deformations of their hyperbolic structures. These examples are constructed via holonomy representations derived from projective deformations of the hyperbolic structure, specifically by analyzing a \(1\)-dimensional subfamily of representations.\N\NThis work extends previous results on surface groups to \(3\)-manifold groups and proves the existence of non-Hitchin strongly dense subgroups in \(SL(4,\mathbb R)\)

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