Study Fuchsian loci in mPSLn(R)-Hitchin components of a pair of pants.
problem Understanding Fuchsian loci in mPSLn(R)-Hitchin components. method Using Bonahon-Dreyer parametrization, explicit parametrization of Fuchsian loci of a pair of pants.
result Explicit parametrization of Fuchsian loci of a pair of pants.
Develops analogs of character varieties for algebraic correspondences, proving boundedness and compactifications.
problem Characterizing algebraic correspondences and their degenerations.
method Introducing new character varieties and studying degeneration of algebraic correspondences on trees of Riemann spheres.
result Boundedness and natural homeomorphism of compactifications of Teichmüller spaces for the four times punctured sphere.
In this paper, we study the topology of the boundaries of quasi-Fuchsian spaces. We first show for a given convergent sequence of quasi-Fuchsian groups, how we can know the end invariant of the limit group from the information on the behaviour of conformal structures at infinity of the groups. This result gives rise to…
Using the thermodynamics formalism, we introduce a notion of intersection for projective Anosov representations, show analyticity results for the intersection and the entropy, and rigidity results for the intersection. We use the renormalized intersection to produce a Out(Γ)-invariant Riemannian metric on the smooth …
In this paper we give a complete description of the space $ \QF $ of quasifuchsian punctured torus groups in terms of what we call {\em pleating invariants}. These are natural invariants of the boundary $\bch$ of the convex core of the associated hyperbolic 3-manifold M and give coordinates for the non-Fuchsian group…
The paper proves CMC foliations for quasi-Fuchsian manifolds near the Fuchsian locus.
problem Existence of monotone CMC foliations for quasi-Fuchsian manifolds.
method Analyzes quasi-Fuchsian manifolds near the Fuchsian locus and proves the existence of a unique monotone CMC foliation.
result Proves the existence of a unique monotone CMC foliation for quasi-Fuchsian manifolds in a small neighborhood of the Fuchsian locus.
Researchers create explicit representations for skein algebras of small surfaces, revealing their Azumaya loci.
problem Understanding the structure and properties of skein algebras of small surfaces.
method Constructed finite-dimensional representations at all roots of unity, using explicit formulas and analyzing reducibility.
result Azumaya loci of the surfaces contain the smooth loci of classical shadow varieties, with equality for the one-punctured torus and proper containment for the four-punctured sphere.
Article shows AdS-quasi-Fuchsian groups' limit sets are not smooth.
problem Smoothness of limit sets of AdS quasi-Fuchsian groups.
method Analyzes limit sets of AdS quasi-Fuchsian groups in PO(n,2).
result Limit sets are never C^1, except for Fuchsian groups.
In this note, we describe a procedure to construct generalized complex structures with an arbitrarily large number of type change loci on products of the circle with a connected sum of closed 3-manifolds. The loci need not be isotopic.
An almost-Fuchsian group is a quasi-Fuchsian group such that the quotient hyperbolic manifold contains a closed incompressible minimal surface with principal curvatures contained in (-1,1). We show that the domain of discontinuity of an almost-Fuchsian group contains many balls of a fixed spherical radius in the visual…
New foliations at infinity for quasi-Fuchsian manifolds near the Fuchsian locus are uniquely determined.
problem Determining foliations at infinity for quasi-Fuchsian manifolds near the Fuchsian locus.
method Inspired by Bonahon's method, uses measured bending laminations on the boundary of convex cores.
result Measured foliations at infinity of quasi-Fuchsian manifolds can be uniquely realized for small t. Study geodesics and shortest arcs on Lie groups with specific metrics.
problem Characterize geodesics and shortest arcs in sub-Riemannian metrics on Lie groups.
method Investigated left-invariant sub-Riemannian metrics on SU(1,1)imesR and SO0(2,1)imesR. result Found geodesics, shortest arcs, cut loci, and conjugate loci.
Study foliations at infinity and constant mean curvature surfaces in quasi-Fuchsian manifolds.
problem Understanding foliations at infinity and constant mean curvature surfaces in quasi-Fuchsian manifolds.
method Using measured foliations and quasi-Fuchsian manifolds, proving the existence and uniqueness of foliations by constant mean curvature surfaces.
result For quasi-Fuchsian manifolds close to the Fuchsian locus, measured foliations at infinity can be uniquely realized and foliated by constant mean curvature surfaces.
The study classifies weakly almost Fuchsian manifolds and proves geometric properties.
problem Classifying and understanding weakly almost Fuchsian manifolds.
method Geometric analysis and compactification techniques.
result Uniform upper bounds on volume and Hausdorff dimension for limit sets.
Surveying Hitchin representations of Fuchsian groups.
problem Understanding representations of Fuchsian groups.
method Survey and conjectural geometric description.
result Conjectural geometric picture of an augmented Hitchin component.
We show that if a homeomorphism between the ideal boundaries of two Fuchsian buildings preserves the combinatorial cross ratio almost everywhere, then it extends to an isomorphism between the Fuchsian buildings. It follows that Mostow rigidity holds for Fuchsian buildings: if a group acts properly and cocompactly on tw…
Measuring foliations at infinity of quasi-Fuchsian manifolds, proving filling pairs and showing realisation.
problem Understanding foliations at the boundary of quasi-Fuchsian manifolds.
method Proving filling pairs and showing realisation of measured foliations.
result Proved that measured foliations at infinity of quasi-Fuchsian manifolds are filling when close to being Fuchsian.
Rectifies zero loci of certain spinors in 4D manifolds.
problem Understanding the structure of zero loci of Z/2 harmonic spinors. method Proves rectifiability and Minkowski bounds for the zero locus.
result Zero loci are 2-rectifiable and have locally finite Minkowski content.
Study Liouville action on quasi-Fuchsian groups, proving formulas and relating to holography.
problem Analyzing Liouville action for quasi-Fuchsian groups with different types of elements.
method Derived formulas for classical Liouville action, proved first and second variations, and established holography principle.
result Established an equality linking Liouville action and renormalized volume for quasi-Fuchsian groups.
We survey the cohomology jumping loci and the Alexander-type invariants associated to a space, or to its fundamental group. Though most of the material is expository, we provide new examples and applications, which in turn raise several questions and conjectures. The jump loci of a space X come in two basic flavors: th…
As an increasing number of genome-wide association studies reveal the limitations of attempting to explain phenotypic heritability by single genetic loci, there is growing interest for associating complex phenotypes with sets of genetic loci. While several methods for multi-locus mapping have been proposed, it is often…
Study shows finiteness of Teichmueller curves in specific Prym loci.
problem Determining the existence and finiteness of Teichmueller curves in Prym loci.
method Analyzing specific Prym loci (Prym(2,1,1) and Prym(2,2)) to prove finiteness results.
result Prym(2,1,1) contains no Teichmueller curves, and Prym(2,2) at most 92 such curves.
We rigorously define the Liouville action functional for finitely generated, purely loxodromic quasi-Fuchsian group using homology and cohomology double complexes naturally associated with the group action. We prove that the classical action - the critical point of the Liouville action functional, considered as a funct…
Locally rigid groups from 5-polytopes with Fuchsian ends.
problem Constructing locally rigid right-angled Coxeter groups with Fuchsian ends.
method Constructing a right-angled 5-polytope P and analyzing its right-angled Coxeter groups.
result Locally rigid right-angled Coxeter groups with Fuchsian ends can be constructed.
Study Riemannian metrics on lens spaces, find cut loci and diameters.
problem Understanding Riemannian metrics on lens spaces and their geometric properties.
method Geometric control theory methods applied to axisymmetric metrics.
result Cut loci and cut times converge to sub-Riemannian structure's values.
Study Riemannian metrics on lens spaces, find cut loci and diameters.
problem Analyzing Riemannian metrics on lens spaces.
method Geometric control theory methods.
result Cut loci and cut times converge to sub-Riemannian structure's cut locus and time.
We prove that the renormalized volume of almost-Fuchsian hyperbolic 3-manifolds is non-negative, with equality only for Fuchsian manifolds.
Unique compact Fuchsian manifolds with convex boundary are determined by their boundary.
problem Identifying compact Fuchsian manifolds with convex boundaries.
method Proving uniqueness based on the induced path metric on the boundary.
result Compact Fuchsian manifolds with convex boundaries are uniquely determined by the induced path metric on the boundary.
We compare critical exponent for quasi-Fuchsian groups acting on the hyperbolic 3-space, H3, and on invariant disks embedded in H3. We give a rigidity theorem for all embedded surfaces when the action is Fuchsian and a rigidity theorem for negatively curved surfaces when the action is quasi-Fuch…
We introduce the natural and fairly general notion of a subanalytic bundle (with a finite dimensional vector space P of sections) on a subanalytic subset X of a real analytic manifold M, and prove that when M is compact, there is a Baire subset U of sections in P whose zero-loci in X have tubular neighbou…
Computes cohomology groups for NEC groups, focusing on Fuchsian groups.
problem Understanding the cohomology of non-Euclidean crystallographic groups.
method Computes cohomology groups for geometrically finite NEC groups, and determines the ring structure for Fuchsian groups.
result Determination of cohomology groups and ring structures for Fuchsian groups.
New method studies discriminantal loci of algebraic varieties.
problem Understanding discriminantal loci of algebraic varieties.
method Efficient use of groupoids to describe monodromy.
result New insights into discriminantal loci of hypersurfaces.
New upper bound for geodesic complexity derived from cut locus decompositions.
problem Understanding geodesic complexity in Riemannian manifolds.
method Study of decompositions of cut loci and their tangent fibers.
result Established a new upper bound for geodesic complexity.
The paper confirms a conjecture about foliating almost Fuchsian manifolds with CMC surfaces.
problem Confirming a conjecture about foliating almost Fuchsian manifolds with CMC surfaces.
method Proving the long-time existence and convergence of a modified mean curvature flow.
result The CMC foliation conjecture is confirmed for a subclass of almost Fuchsian manifolds.
Study on Cheeger constant in specific hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Analyzing Cheeger constant in convex co-compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
method Examining Cheeger constant as a functional in the space of specific hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
result Global maximum of Cheeger constant is uniquely attained at the Fuchsian locus.
Study curvature loci of 3-manifolds in R^6 and R^5.
problem Characterize curvature loci of 3-manifolds in different dimensions.
method Refine affine classification of real nets of quadrics, study singularities, and analyze systems of ternary cubics.
result Obtain generic curvature loci and singularities of 3-manifolds.
Let Gamma be a cocompact lattice in SO(1,n). A representation rho: Gamma \to SO(2,n) is quasi-Fuchsian if it is faithfull, discrete, and preserves an acausal subset in the boundary of anti-de Sitter space - a particular case is the case of Fuchsian representations, ie. composition of the inclusions of Gamma in SO(1,n) …
New findings on Fuchsian groups and their axes.
problem Determining the commensurability class of Fuchsian groups.
method Analyzing geodesic intersections and using a new approach.
result The conjecture holds for almost all Fuchsian groups.
Random walks on Fuchsian Schottky groups have harmonic measures with lower dimension.
problem Understanding the dimensionality of harmonic measures for random walks.
method Analyzing finite range random walks on Fuchsian Schottky groups.
result Harmonic measures have dimension strictly less than the limit set's Hausdorff dimension.
Study C-Fuchsian subgroups of non-arithmetic lattices.
problem Understand structure and fundamental domains of C-Fuchsian subgroups. method General procedure to analyze structure and show fundamental domains lie on a complex geodesic.
result Fundamental domains of C-Fuchsian subgroups lie on a complex geodesic homeomorphic to the unit disk. Alternative construction of quasi-Fuchsian flows using vortex equations.
problem Constructing quasi-Fuchsian flows.
method Using coupled vortex equations to construct quasi-Fuchsian flows as thermostats.
result Formulas for the marked length spectrum of quasi-Fuchsian flows.
Totally geodesic limit of quasi-Fuchsian groups with converging critical exponent.
problem Understanding convergence of quasi-Fuchsian groups.
method Critical exponent convergence analysis.
result Convergence of quasi-Fuchsian groups to totally geodesic representations.
The paper shows nearly-Fuchsian properties for certain hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
problem Characterizing hyperbolic 3-manifolds with specific surface properties.
method Analyzing minimal and non-minimal surfaces with principal curvatures in [-1,1](-1,1).
result Weakly almost-Fuchsian manifolds are nearly-Fuchsian.
We use Series' Markovian coding for words in Fuchsian groups and the Bowen-Series coding of limit sets to prove an ergodic theorem for Cesaro averages of spherical averages in a Fuchsian group.
The trace set of a Fuchsian group Γ ist the set of length of closed geodesics in the surface Γ\H. Luo and Sarnak showed that the trace set of a cofinite arithmetic Fuchsian group satisfies the bounded clustering property. Sarnak then conjectured that the B-C property actually characterizes arithm…
Study elliptic isometries on a matrix manifold with specific metrics.
problem Differential-geometric properties of fixed point loci.
method Explicit description and De Rham decomposition of fixed point loci.
result Explicit description and De Rham decomposition of fixed point loci.
Surveying recent results on the geometry of Jacobian loci.
problem Understanding the extrinsic geometry of Jacobian loci.
method Analyzing the Torelli map as a multiplication map and studying totally geodesic subvarieties.
result Relation between totally geodesic subvarieties and Hodge loci.
Study geodesics and shortest arcs on Lie groups with specific metrics.
problem Characterize geodesics and shortest paths on Lie groups with sub-Riemannian metrics.
method Analytical and geometric methods to find geodesics and shortest arcs.
result Found geodesics, shortest arcs, distances, and conjugate loci for specified metrics.