Reducible suspensions of Anosov representations

We study through the lens of Anosov representations the dynamical properties of reducible suspensions of linear representations of non-elementary hyperbolic groups, which are linear representations preserving and acting weakly unipotently on a proper non-zero subspace. We characterize when reducible suspensions are discrete and (almost) faithful, quasi-isometrically embedded, and Anosov. Anosov reducible suspensions correspond to points in bounded convex domains in a finite-dimensional real vector space. Stronger characterizations of such domains for symmetric Anosov representations allow us to find deformations of Borel Anosov representations which retain some but not all of the Anosov conditions and to compute examples of non-Anosov limits of Anosov representations.

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Groups Geometry and Dynamics
Published
2025-02-13
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https://doi.org/10.4171/ggd/858
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Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
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Reducible suspensions of Anosov representations

Max Lahn
Groups Geometry and Dynamics
Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
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Reducible suspensions of Anosov representations

Max Lahn
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Abstract

We study through the lens of Anosov representations the dynamical properties of reducible suspensions of linear representations of non-elementary hyperbolic groups, which are linear representations preserving and acting weakly unipotently on a proper non-zero subspace. We characterize when reducible suspensions are discrete and (almost) faithful, quasi-isometrically embedded, and Anosov. Anosov reducible suspensions correspond to points in bounded convex domains in a finite-dimensional real vector space. Stronger characterizations of such domains for symmetric Anosov representations allow us to find deformations of Borel Anosov representations which retain some but not all of the Anosov conditions and to compute examples of non-Anosov limits of Anosov representations.

Groups Geometry and Dynamics
University of Michigan (US)
Openalex Percentile: Top 94%
Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
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