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New rigidity result for convex co-compact actions in products of spaces.

The paper defines conditions for groups acting on convex domains to be relatively hyperbolic.

In this paper, we consider discrete groups in ${\rm PGL}_d(\mathbb{R})$ acting convex co-compactly on a properly convex domain in real projective space. For such groups, we establish an analogue of the well known flat torus theorem for ${\rm CAT}(0)$ spaces.

The paper characterizes convex co-compact groups with one-dimensional boundary faces.

3-manifold groups can only have convex co-compact representations if they are geometric or hyperbolic.

We survey some results and questions about free actions of infinite groups on products of spheres and euclidean spaces, and give some new co-compact examples.

We strengthen the analogy between convex co-compact Kleinian groups and convex co-compact subgroups of the mapping class group of a surface (in the sense of B. Farb and L. Mosher).

Unique hyperbolic manifolds identified by boundary pleating.

Study shows infimum of dual volume equals convex core volume for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

The renormalized volume is reinterpreted using isoperimetric profiles.

3D hyperbolic manifolds map one-to-one to their boundary character varieties.

Study on Cheeger constant in specific hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

The study shows how certain surfaces can be filled by hyperbolic manifolds.

For convex co-compact hyperbolic manifolds $Γ\backslash \mathbb{H}^{n+1}$ for which the dimension of the limit set satisfies $δ_Γ< n/2$, we show that the high-frequency Eisenstein series associated to a point $ξ$ "at infinity" concentrate microlocally on a measure supported by (the closure of) the set of points in the …

The paper studies the action of automorphisms on train tracks and finds that the set of minimally displaced points is co-compact.

For quotients of the $n+1$-dimensional hyperbolic space by a convex co-compact group $Γ$, we obtain a formula relating the renormalized trace of the wave operator with the resonances of the Laplacian and some conformal invariants of the boundary, generalizing a formula of Guillopé and Zworski in dimension 2. By writing…

New adapted renormalized volume for hyperbolic 3-manifolds with compressible boundary.

Study on hyperbolic manifolds and their boundary data, focusing on volume functions.

For compact and for convex co-compact oriented hyperbolic surfaces, we prove an explicit correspondence between classical Ruelle resonant states and quantum resonant states, except at negative integers where the correspondence involves holomorphic sections of line bundles.

We study the existence of surfaces with constant or prescribed Gauss curvature in certain Lorentzian spacetimes. We prove in particular that every (non-elementary) 3-dimensional maximal globally hyperbolic spatially compact spacetime with constant non-negative curvature is foliated by compact spacelike surfaces with co…

We show meromorphic extension and analyze the divisors of a Selberg zeta function of odd type $Z_{Γ,Σ}^{\rm o}(λ)$ associated to the spinor bundle $Σ$ on odd dimensional convex co-compact hyperbolic manifolds $X:=Γ\backslash\hh^{2n+1}$. We define a natural eta invariant $η(D)$ associated to the Dirac operator $D$ on $X…

We prove a dynamical wave trace formula for asymptotically hyperbolic (n+1) dimensional manifolds with negative (but not necessarily constant) sectional curvatures which equates the renormalized wave trace to the lengths of closed geodesics. A corollary of this dynamical trace formula is a dynamical resonance-wave trac…

For convex co-compact hyperbolic quotients $X=Γ\backslash\hh^{n+1}$, we analyze the long-time asymptotic of the solution of the wave equation $u(t)$ with smooth compactly supported initial data $f=(f_0,f_1)$. We show that, if the Hausdorff dimension $δ$ of the limit set is less than $n/2$, then $u(t) = C_δ(f) e^{(δ-\nd…

For every dimension d, there is an infinite family of convex co-compact reflection groups of isometries of hyperbolic d-space --- the superideal (simplicial and cubical) reflection groups --- with the property that a random group at any density less than a half (or in the few relators model) contains quasiconvex subgro…

For G an almost-connected Lie group, we study G-equivariant index theory for proper co-compact actions with various applications, including obstructions to and existence of G-invariant Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature. We prove a rigidity result for almost-complex manifolds, generalising Hattori's result…

We define and study the renormalized volume for geometrically finite hyperbolic $3$-manifolds, including with rank-$1$ cusps. We prove a variation formula, and show that for certain families of convex co-compact hyperbolic metrics $g_\eps$ degenerating to a geometrically finite hyperbolic metric $g_0$ with rank-$1$ cus…

We provide an equivariant description/classification of all complete (compact or not) non-negatively curved manifolds M together with a co-compact action by a reflection group W, and moreover, classify such W. In particular, we show that the building blocks consist of the classical constant curvature models and general…

The main purpose of this note is to provide a topological approach to defining additive functions on Riemannian co-compact normal coverings.

We give a new upper bound on the Selberg zeta function for a convex co-compact Schottky group acting on ${\mathbb H}^{n+1}$: in strips parallel to the imaginary axis the zeta function is bounded by $\exp (C |s|^δ)$ where $δ$ is the dimension of the limit set of the group. This bound is more precise than the optimal…

Quasifuchsian hyperbolic manifolds, or more generally convex co-compact hyperbolic manifolds, have infinite volume, but they have a well-defined ``renormalized'' volume. We outline some relations between this renormalized volume and the volume, or more precisely the ``dual volume'', of the convex core. On one hand, the…

Let $(M, \partial M)$ be a compact 3-manifold with boundary, which admits a convex co-compact hyperbolic metric. We consider the hyperbolic metrics on $M$ such that the boundary is smooth and strictly convex. We show that the induced metrics on the boundary are exactly the metrics with curvature $K>-1$, and that the th…

New manifold types defined on quotient spaces.

Take two isomorphic convex co-compact co-infinite volume Kleinian groups, whose regular sets are diffeomorphic. The quotient of hyperbolic 3-space by these groups gives two hyperbolic 3-manifolds whose scattering operators may be compared. We prove that the operator norm of the difference between the scattering operato…

We present examples of hyperbolizable 3-manifolds $M$ with the following property. Let $CC(π_1(M))$ denote the space of convex co-compact representations of $π_1(M)$. We show that for every $K\geq 1$ there exists a representation $ρ$ in $\bar {CC(π_1(M))}$ so that every $K$-quasiconformal deformation of $ρ$ lies in the…

Given a convex representation $ρ:Γ\to\textrm{PGL}(d,\mathbb{R})$ of a convex co-compact group $Γ$ of $\mathbb{H}^k$ we find upper bounds for the quantity $αh_ρ,$ where $h_ρ$ is the entropy of $ρ$ and $α$ is the Hölder exponent of the equivariant map $\partialΓ\to\mathbb{P}(\mathbb{R}^d).$ We also give rigidity statemen…

In this paper we investigate the higher dimensional divergence functions of mapping class groups of surfaces and of CAT(0)--groups. We show that, for mapping class groups of surfaces, these functions exhibit phase transitions at the rank (as measured by thrice the genus plus the number of punctures minus 3). We also pr…

Develops new methods for Epstein surfaces and W-volume.

We consider 3-dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifolds, singular along infinite lines, which are ``convex co-compact'' in a natural sense. We prove an infinitesimal rigidity statement when the angle around the singular lines is less than $π$: any first-order deformation changes either one of those angles or the conformal …

Let $Γ$ be a (non-elementary) convex co-compact group of isometries of a pinched Hadamard manifold $X$. We show that a normal subgroup $Γ_0$ has critical exponent equal to the critical exponent of $Γ$ if and only if $Γ/ Γ_0$ is amenable. We prove a similar result for the exponential growth rate of closed geodesics on $…

Formula derived for FUP exponent in quasi-Fuchsian groups.

In this note, we study the dynamics and associated zeta functions of conformally compact manifolds with variable negative sectional curvatures. We begin with a discussion of a larger class of manifolds known as convex co-compact manifolds with variable negative curvature. Applying results from dynamics on these spaces,…

Geometric data uniquely determines convex subsets in hyperbolic manifolds.

Study bounds changes in hyperbolic 3-manifold structures after drilling short geodesics.

We show that every finitely-generated free subgroup of a right-angled, co-compact Kleinian reflection group is contained in a surface subgroup.

Let $(M, \dr M)$ be a 3-manifold with incompressible boundary that admits a convex co-compact hyperbolic metric. We consider the hyperbolic metrics on $M$ such that $\dr M$ looks locally like a hyperideal polyhedron, and we characterize the possible dihedral angles. We find as special cases the results of Bao and Bonah…

Take a riemanniann nilmanifold, lift its metric on its universal cover. In that way one obtains a metric invariant under the action of some co-compact subgroup. We use it to define metric balls and then study the spectrum of the laplacian for the dirichlet problem on them. We describe the asymptotic behaviour of the sp…

We prove that a compact nilmanifold admits a Sasakian structure if and only if it is a compact quotient of the generalized Heisenberg group of odd dimension by a co-compact discrete subgroup.

For a class of even dimensional conformally compact manifolds (X,g), we define a generalized Krein spectral function by applying a renormalized trace functional to the spectral measure of the Laplacian. We then show that this is the phase of the Kontsevich-Vishik determinant det S(s) of the scattering operator S(s) of …