Study Anosov representations of reducible suspensions of hyperbolic groups.
problem Characterize dynamical properties of reducible suspensions of Anosov representations.
method Analyzing linear representations of non-elementary hyperbolic groups, focusing on weak unipotent actions on subspaces.
result Characterize when reducible suspensions are discrete and faithful, quasi-isometrically embedded, and Anosov.
Develops theory of Anosov representations for Fuchsian groups, showing stability and analytical properties.
problem Understanding geometrically finite Fuchsian groups and their representations.
method Theory of Anosov representations, type-preserving deformations, limit maps, relative Anosov and dominated representations.
result Cusped Hitchin representations are Borel Anosov, stable under deformations, and limit maps vary analytically.
Develops theory of relatively Anosov representations using flow examples.
problem Understanding relatively Anosov representations.
method Uses a contracting flow on a bundle to define Anosov representations and builds examples.
result Builds families of examples of relatively Anosov representations.
Survey on affine Anosov representations and their implications.
problem Generalizing Anosov representations to affine settings.
method Discussion and survey of existing work.
result Implications of affine Anosov representations.
We characterize groups admitting Anosov representations into SL(3,R), projective Anosov representations into SL(4,R), and Borel Anosov representations into SL(4,R). More generally, we obtain bounds on the cohomological dimension of groups admitting Pk-Anosov r…
New representations for surface groups expand known Anosov classes.
problem Understanding new types of representations for surface groups.
method Introducing and studying simple Anosov representations of closed hyperbolic surface groups.
result Simple Anosov representations strictly contain Anosov representations.
New findings on cusped Borel Anosov representations and their properties.
problem Characterizing and understanding cusped Borel Anosov representations.
method Analyzing representations of lattices in PGL2(R) to PGLd(R). result Cusped Borel Anosov representations with specific properties are Hitchin representations.
Characterizes Anosov reducible representations in terms of eigenvalues.
problem Understanding Anosov representations in reducible settings.
method Characterizes Anosov representations using eigenvalue magnitudes of irreducible block factors.
result Connected components of character varieties do not contain reducible representations for many non-elementary hyperbolic groups.
New domains of discontinuity found for Anosov representations.
problem Understanding Anosov representations acting on homogeneous spaces.
method Constructing open domains of discontinuity for Anosov representations acting on specific homogeneous spaces.
result Describes the largest possible open domains of discontinuity for Zariski dense Anosov representations.
Theory of relatively Anosov representations using flow methods.
problem Developing a theory for relatively Anosov representations.
method Using the contracting flow on a bundle to define and study relatively Anosov representations.
result Definition and study of uniformly relatively Anosov representations and a stability result.
Maximal and Borel Anosov representations in Sp(4,R) are proven to be Hitchin.
problem Characterizing representations of surface groups into Sp(4,R) that are Borel Anosov and maximal. method Proving representations are Hitchin if they have maximal Toledo invariant and are Borel Anosov.
result Maximal and Borel Anosov representations in Sp(4,R) are Hitchin. Identifies Anosov representations of hyperbolic triangle groups in SL(3,R).
problem Classifying Anosov representations of hyperbolic triangle groups into SL(3,R).
method Proving representations are Anosov if they lie in the Hitchin component or the Barbot component, with specific conditions for eigenvalues.
result Anosov representations in SL(3,R) have non-convex boundary maps.
New representations defined for groups and graphs, with applications to stable representations.
problem Defining and constructing new types of representations for groups and graphs.
method Introducing (R,Λ)-directed Anosov representations and using Fock-Goncharov positivity to construct them. result Constructs large families of primitive stable representations from F2 to PGL(V), including non-discrete and non-faithful examples. Cube complexes allow hyperbolic groups to have Anosov representations.
problem Understanding representations of hyperbolic groups in higher dimensions.
method Analyzing representations of hyperbolic groups acting on CAT(0) cube complexes.
result Generic representations of certain groups are Anosov.
New representation theory for closed geodesic subflows.
problem Classifying representations with good geometric properties.
method Restricting to invariant closed geodesic subflows.
result Equivalent characterizations and properties of new representations.
The paper introduces cataclysm deformations for Anosov representations.
problem Deforming Anosov representations in Lie groups.
method Constructing cataclysm deformations for θ-Anosov representations into semisimple Lie groups. result Cataclysm deformations are injective for Hitchin representations but not for all θ-Anosov representations. The paper constructs Anosov representations for specific types of groups.
problem Constructing Anosov representations for certain groups.
method Analyzing uniform lattices and their extensions, proving existence of Anosov embeddings.
result Examples of one-ended hyperbolic groups admit Anosov embeddings into higher-rank Lie groups.
New metrics for Anosov representations defined from Thurston's asymmetric metrics.
problem Defining metrics for Anosov representations.
method Generalizing Thurston's asymmetric metric to Anosov representations.
result Provides a (possibly asymmetric) Finsler distance in some cases.
Cataclysm deformations study Anosov representations and their convergence.
problem Understanding convergence of Anosov representations under deformation.
method Cataclysm deformation of Anosov representations using twisted transverse cocycles.
result Uniform convergence of cataclysm deformations on compact sets.
Anosov deformations created for surfaces with specific properties.
problem Creating proper slices in character varieties for specific surface groups.
method Constructing proper slices in character varieties for surface groups into SL(3,R).
result Representations are Borel Anosov.
Proves restrictions on projective Anosov representations of hyperbolic groups.
problem Restrictions on projective Anosov representations of hyperbolic groups.
method Word hyperbolic groups and Gromov boundary analysis.
result Word hyperbolic groups with certain properties cannot admit projective Anosov representations.
Cataclysm deformations study Anosov representations, leading to new formulas and non-open sets.
problem Understanding Anosov representations and their deformations.
method Cataclysm deformations based on twisted transverse cocycles.
result Uniform convergence of cataclysm deformations on compact sets.
Anosov representations of surface groups are complex manifolds.
problem Characterizing the geometry of Anosov representations of surface groups.
method Analyzing the character varieties of Anosov representations into $\SL(n , \C)$.
result Character varieties of Anosov representations are complex manifolds of specific dimension.
New examples of embeddings defy Anosov representation limits.
problem Examples of robust quasi-isometric embeddings not approximated by Anosov representations.
method Exhibited non-locally rigid, Zariski dense embeddings in SLm(K). result Higher rank Anosov representation theorems fail for m≥30. We study the limit set of discrete subgroups arising from Anosov representations. Specially we study the limit set of discrete groups arising from strictly convex real projective structures and Anosov representations from a finitely generated word hyperbolic group into a semisimple Lie group.
New insights into Anosov representations of hyperbolic groups.
problem Understanding Anosov representations of relatively hyperbolic groups.
method Proving representations can be interpreted as restricted Anosov representations over flow spaces and showing stability under deformations.
result Representations of certain types are divergent, extended geometrically finite and stable under small deformations.
Characterizes Anosov representations and strongly convex cocompact groups with eigenvalue gaps.
problem Understanding Anosov representations and their properties.
method Characterizations via equivariant limit maps, Cartan property, and uniform gap summation.
result Characterizations of Anosov representations and strongly convex cocompact subgroups.
Positive representations of surface groups in PO(p,q) form connected components of character varieties.
problem Characterizing representations of surface groups in special orthogonal groups PO(p,q).
method Using Anosov representations and root versus weight collar lemmas.
result Connected components of character varieties are formed by Θ-positive Anosov representations. In this paper we show that many projective Anosov representations act convex cocompactly on some properly convex domain in real projective space. In particular, if a non-elementary word hyperbolic group is not commensurable to a non-trivial free product or the fundamental group of a closed hyperbolic surface, then any …
In this paper we establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the limit set of a projective Anosov representation to be a differentiable submanifold of projective space with Holder continuous derivatives. We also calculate the optimal value of the Holder constant in terms of the eigenvalue data of the Anosov repre…
New examples show embeddings not approximated by Anosov representations.
problem Understanding quasi-isometric embeddings of word hyperbolic groups into SL(d,R). method Constructing specific examples of embeddings that are not limits of Anosov representations.
result Analogous density theorem does not hold for SL(d,R) when d⩾5. Let Γ be a one-ended, torsion-free hyperbolic group and let G be a semisimple Lie group with finite center. Using the canonical JSJ splitting due to Sela, we define amalgam Anosov representations of Γ into G and prove that they form a domain of discontinuity for the action of Out(Γ). In the appendix,…
Given an Anosov representation $ρ\colon π_1(S) \to \PSL_{n}(\mathbb{R})$ and a maximal geodesic lamination λ in a surface S, we construct shear deformations along the leaves of the geodesic lamination λ endowed with a certain flag decoration, that is provided by the associated flag curve $\mathcal{F}_ρ\colon \Sin…
The notion of Anosov representations has been introduced by Labourie in his study of the Hitchin component for SL(n,R). Subsequently, Anosov representations have been studied mainly for surface groups, in particular in the context of higher Teichmueller spaces, and for lattices in SO(1,n). In this article we extend the…
Uniformizes compact complex manifolds via Anosov representations.
problem Uniformization of compact complex manifolds.
method Anosov homomorphisms with small limit sets.
result Local homeomorphism of character variety to Teichmüller space.
We prove that Anosov representations from a surface group to SL(3,R) are uniquely determined by their boundary maps if and only if they do not factor over a completely reducible representation. Furthermore we discuss representations not distinguished by their boundary maps, and we give a lower bound for the number of m…
We define the notion of affine Anosov representations of word hyperbolic groups into the affine group SO0(n+1,n)⋉R2n+1. We then show that a representation ρ of a word hyperbolic group is affine Anosov if and only if its linear part Lρ is Anosov in SO0(n+1,n) with …
We define new topological invariants for Anosov representations and study them in detail for maximal representations of the fundamental group of a closed oriented surface into the symplectic group.
New separation concepts for Anosov representations help bound Thurston asymmetric metric.
problem Understanding diverging families of Anosov representations.
method Introducing separation concepts and analyzing combinatorial invariants.
result Critical exponent asymptotic to a graph invariant.
We prove that a word hyperbolic group which admits a P2q+1-Anosov representation into PGL(4q+2,R) contains a finite-index subgroup which is either free or a surface group. As a consequence, we give an affirmative answer to Sambarino's question for Borel Anosov representations into $\mathsf{SL}…
Geodesic patterns, shears, and Anosov representations of the modular group.
problem Understanding representations of the modular group into Isom(X).
method Analyzing geodesic patterns, shears, and foliations.
result The Barbot component is homeomorphic to R^2 x [0,∞), with interior and boundary properties.
New algorithm verifies Anosov condition for surface groups efficiently.
problem Verifying Anosov condition for surface groups in higher dimensions.
method Finite criteria to certify projective Anosov subgroups, practical algorithm.
result Practical algorithm reduces verification from 2 million to 8-length words.
In this note we give an overview of some of our recent work on Anosov representations of discrete groups into higher rank semisimple Lie groups.
The paper describes correlations of spectra for higher rank Anosov representations.
problem Understanding correlations of spectra for Anosov representations of higher rank groups.
method Relates correlation problem to counting projections in truncated hypertubes.
result Extends previous work on rank one representations to higher rank.
In the paper "Pappus's theorem and the modular group", R. Schwartz constructed a 2-dimensional family of faithful representations ρΘ of the modular group PSL(2,Z) into the group G of projective symmetries of the projective plane via Pappus Theorem. The image of the unique index 2 subg…
Collar lemma proven for certain surface group representations.
problem Proving a collar lemma for specific surface group representations.
method Using partial hyperconvexity properties and Anosov representations.
result 'Positivity properties' hold for partially hyperconvex representations.
This note removes technical assumptions and characterizes relatively dominated representations.
problem Geometrically finiteness and Anosov conditions in higher-rank settings.
method Characterization using eigenvalue gaps and limit maps.
result Relatively dominated representations are characterized using eigenvalue gaps and limit maps.
The symplectic representation of mapping classes is not surjective for certain types of mapping classes.
problem The surjectivity of the symplectic representation of mapping classes, particularly pseudo-Anosov ones, is not always preserved.
method Explicit construction of symplectic matrices with a bi-Perron leading eigenvalue that cannot be represented by orientable pseudo-Anosov mapping classes.
result The symplectic representation of orientable pseudo-Anosov mapping classes is not surjective.