arXiv research

Characterizes Coxeter groups with convex cocompact representations in projective space.

Constructs hyperbolic reflection groups with 3D limit sets.

Two groups with specific limit sets in hyperbolic spaces are identified.

A hyperbolic 3-simplex reflection group is a Coxeter group arising as a lattice in the isometry group of hyperbolic 3-space, with fundamental domain a geodesic simplex (possibly with some ideal vertices). The classification of these groups is known, and there are exactly 9 cocompact examples, and 23 non-cocompact examp…

The paper classifies a specific type of hyperbolic lattices using geometric properties.

Geometric constraints help classify hyperbolic polytopes.

We consider a cocompact discrete reflection group $W$ of a CAT(0) space $X$. Then $W$ becomes a Coxeter group. In this paper, we study an analogy between the Davis-Moussong complex $Σ(W,S)$ and the CAT(0) space $X$, and show several analogous results about the limit set of a parabolic subgroup of the Coxeter group $W$.

New Fuchsian groups found with special embedding properties.

Convex-cocompact groups in infinite hyperbolic space are deformable.

New examples show some convex-cocompact subgroups are separable.

Anosov subgroups generalize convex-cocompact groups in hyperbolic geometry.

Characterizes convex cocompact actions in projective space with dynamical properties.

We provide new conditions for the Strong Atiyah conjecture to lift to finite group extensions. In particular, we show cocompact special groups satisfy these conditions, so the Strong Atiyah conjecture holds for virtually cocompact special groups.

The paper controls the geometry of surface subgroups in specific Kleinian groups.

New subgroup behavior in genus-2 mapping class group identified.

Proves certain subgroups of genus 2 handlebody group are convex cocompact.

We study a notion of convex cocompactness for discrete subgroups of the projective general linear group acting (not necessarily irreducibly) on real projective space, and give various characterizations. A convex cocompact group in this sense need not be word hyperbolic, but we show that it still has some of the good pr…

Pseudo-Anosov subgroups in surface bundles over tori are convex cocompact.

We prove the Gromov-Lawson-Rosenberg conjecture for cocompact Fuchsian groups, thereby giving necessary and sufficient conditions for a closed spin manifold of dimension greater than four with fundamental group cocompact Fuchsian to admit a metric of positive scalar curvature.

A theorem of Tits - Vinberg allows to build an action of a Coxeter group $Γ$ on a properly convex open set $Ω$ of the real projective space, thanks to the data $P$ of a polytope and reflection across its facets. We give sufficient conditions for such action to be of finite covolume, convex-cocompact or geometrically fi…

Criterion for stopping conjugacy class enumeration in triangle groups.

A Jørgensen group is a non-elementary Kleinian group that can be generated by two elements for which equality holds in Jørgensen's Inequality. This paper shows that the only torsion-free Jørgensen group is the figure-eight knot group, identifies all non-cocompact arithmetic Jørgensen groups, and establishes a character…

We characterize convex cocompact subgroups of mapping class groups that arise as subgroups of specially embedded right-angled Artin groups. That is, if the right-angled Artin group G in Mod(S) satisfies certain conditions that imply G is quasi-isometrically embedded in Mod(S), then a purely pseudo-Anosov subgroup H of …

The hitting measure is singular and has dimension less than 1 for cocompact Fuchsian groups.

Characterizes Anosov representations and strongly convex cocompact groups with eigenvalue gaps.

New criteria for non-isometric group actions in metric spaces.

Study shows certain subgroups of fibered 3-manifolds are convex cocompact.

Combination theorems for convex projective geometry subgroups.

Paradan and Vergne generalised the quantisation commutes with reduction principle of Guillemin and Sternberg from symplectic to Spin$^c$-manifolds. We extend their result to noncompact groups and manifolds. This leads to a result for cocompact actions, and a result for non-cocompact actions for reduction at zero. The r…

The study finds surface subgroups in cocompact lattices of $H^{2n}$ for $n\geq2$.

A Kleinian group $Γ< \mathrm{Isom}(\mathbb H^3)$ is called convex cocompact if any orbit of $Γ$ in $\mathbb H^3$ is quasiconvex or, equivalently, $Γ$ acts cocompactly on the convex hull of its limit set in $\partial \mathbb H^3$. Subgroup stability is a strong quasiconvexity condition in finitely generated groups which…

We characterize convex cocompact subgroups of the mapping class group of a surface in terms of uniform convergence actions on the zero locus of the limit set. We also construct subgroups that act as uniform convergence groups on their limit sets, but are not convex cocompact.

Study on surface group representations in PU(2,1) leading to convex-cocompact examples.

In the study of Fuchsian groups, it is a nontrivial problem to determine a set of generators. Using a dynamical approach we construct for any cocompact arithmetic Fuchsian group a fundamental region in $\mathbf{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})$ from which we determine a set of small generators.

We show that every limit point of a Zariski dense discrete subgroup $Γ$ of the isometry group of a symmetric space of noncompact type is conical if and only if $Γ$ is convex cocompact.

We establish a Lichnerowicz type vanishing theorem for non-compact spin manifolds admiting proper cocompact actions, when the action group is unimodular.

Proves minimal growth rate for Coxeter groups in hyperbolic space.

Given a group action on a simplicial complex such that each simplex stabiliser admits a cocompact model of classifying space for proper actions, we give conditions implying the existence of a cocompact model of classifying space for proper actions for the whole group. This is used to generalise previous combination res…

Study of groups acting on complex projective varieties.

Let $X$ be a negatively curved symmetric space and $Γ$ a non-cocompact lattice in $\rm{Isom}(X)$. We show that small, parabolic-preserving deformations of $Γ$ into the isometry group of any negatively curved symmetric space containing $X$ remain discrete and faithful (the cocompact case is due to Guichard). This applie…

We develop a theory of convex cocompact subgroups of the mapping class group MCG of a closed, oriented surface S of genus at least 2, in terms of the action on Teichmuller space. Given a subgroup G of MCG defining an extension L_G: 1--> pi_1(S) --> L_G --> G -->1 we prove that if L_G is a word hyperbolic group then G i…

Let G be a cocompact lattice in a virtually connected Lie group or the fundamental group of a 3-manifold. We prove the K-theoretic Farrell-Jones Conjecture (up to dimension one) and the L-theoretic Farrell-Jones Conjecture for G, where we allow coefficients in additive G-categories with (involution).

We introduce a strong notion of quasiconvexity in finitely generated groups, which we call stability. Stability agrees with quasiconvexity in hyperbolic groups and is preserved under quasi-isometry for finitely generated groups. We show that the stable subgroups of mapping class groups are precisely the convex cocompac…

New proof for certain groups in higher dimensions.

We construct infinitely many noncommensurable non-cocompact Fuchsian groups $Δ$ of finite covolume sitting in PSL(2,Q) so that the set of hyperbolic fixed points of $Δ$ will contain a given finite collection of elements in the boundary of the hyperbolic plane.

Anosov representations of word hyperbolic groups into higher-rank semisimple Lie groups are representations with finite kernel and discrete image that have strong analogies with convex cocompact representations into rank-one Lie groups. However, the most naive analogy fails: generically, Anosov representations do not a…

Sharp growth tightness proven for group quotients.

Survey recent constructions of cyclic cocycles for Lie groups.