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Complete affine manifolds with Anosov holonomy groups

Geometric Topology 2024-08-06 v9 Differential Geometry

Abstract

Let NN be a complete affine manifold An/Γ\mathbb{A}^n/\Gamma of dimension nn, where Γ\Gamma is an affine transformation group acting on the complete affine space An\mathbb{A}^n, and K(Γ,1)K(\Gamma, 1) is realized as a finite CW-complex. NN has a kk-partially hyperbolic holonomy group if the tangent bundle pulled back over the unit tangent bundle of a sufficiently large compact subset splits into expanding, neutral, and contracting subbundles along the geodesic flow, where the expanding and contracting subbundles are kk-dimensional with k<n/2k < n/2. In part 1, we will demonstrate that the complete affine nn-manifold has a PP-Anosov linear holonomy group for a parabolic subgroup PP of GL(n,R)\mathrm{GL}(n, \mathbb{R}) if and only if it has a partially hyperbolic linear holonomy group. This had never been done over the full general linear group before this paper. Part 1 will primarily employ representation theory techniques. In part 2, we demonstrate that if the holonomy group is partially hyperbolic of index kk, where k<n/2k < n/2, then cd(Γ)nk\mathrm{cd}(\Gamma) \leq n-k. Moreover, if a finitely-presented affine group Γ\Gamma acts properly discontinuously and freely on An\mathbb{A}^n with a kk-Anosov linear subgroup for kn/2k \leq n/2, then cd(Γ)nk\mathrm{cd}(\Gamma) \leq n-k. Also, there exists a compact collection of nkn-k-dimensional affine subspaces where Γ\Gamma acts. The techniques employed here mostly stem from the coarse geometry theory. Canary and Tsouvalis previously proved the same result using the powerful method of Bestvina and Mess for word hyperbolic groups; however, our approach differs in that our method projects the holonomy cover to a stable affine subspace, and we plan to generalize to relative Anosov groups.

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@article{arxiv.2009.11127,
  title  = {Complete affine manifolds with Anosov holonomy groups},
  author = {Suhyoung Choi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.11127},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

41 pages. 4 figures, We announced parts of this paper at the conference "Subgroups of Lie Groups (19w5040)" at the Banff International Research Station (December 10, 2019). We combine with the paper ArXiv:2203.03968. There are only minor changes from the last version

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