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Arc coordinates for maximal representations

Geometric Topology 2024-05-17 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We generalize arc coordinates for maximal representations from a hyperbolic surface with boundary into PSp(4,R)\text{PSp}(4,\mathbb{R}), focusing on the case where the surface is a pair of pants. We introduce geometric parameters within the space of right-angled hexagons in the Siegel space X\mathcal{X}. These parameters enable the visualization of a right-angled hexagon as a polygonal chain inside the hyperbolic plane H2\mathbb{H}^{2}. We explore the geometric properties of reflections in X\mathcal{X} and introduce the notion of maximal representation of the reflection group W3=Z/2ZZ/2ZZ/2ZW_{3}=\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}*\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}*\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}. We parametrize maximal representations from W3W_{3} into PSp±(4,R)\text{PSp}^{\pm}(4,\mathbb{R}), this induces a natural parametrization of a subset of maximal and Shilov hyperbolic representations into PSp(4,R)\text{PSp}(4,\mathbb{R}).

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@article{arxiv.2405.10065,
  title  = {Arc coordinates for maximal representations},
  author = {Marta Magnani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.10065},
  year   = {2024}
}