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Connection Blocking In Quotients of $Sol$

Differential Geometry 2018-03-20 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a connected Lie group and ΓG\Gamma \subset G a lattice. Connection curves of the homogeneous space M=G/ΓM=G/\Gamma are the orbits of one parameter subgroups of GG. To blockblock a pair of points m1,m2Mm_1,m_2 \in M is to find a finite set BM{m1,m2}B \subset M\setminus \{m_1, m_2 \} such that every connecting curve joining m1m_1 and m2m_2 intersects BB. The homogeneous space MM is blockableblockable if every pair of points in MM can be blocked, otherwise we call it nonblockablenon-blockable. SolSol is an important Lie group and one of the eight homogeneous Thurston 3-geometries. It is a unimodular solvable Lie group diffeomorphic to R3R^3, and together with the left invariant metric ds2=e2zdx2+e2zdy2+dz2ds^2=e^{-2z}dx^2+e^{2z}dy^2+dz^2 includes copies of the hyperbolic plane, which makes studying its geometrical properties more interesting. In this paper we prove that all quotients of SolSol are non-blockable. In particular, we show that for any lattice ΓSol\Gamma \subset Sol, the set of non-blockable pairs is a dense subset of Sol/Γ×Sol/ΓSol/\Gamma \times Sol/\Gamma.

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@article{arxiv.1803.06415,
  title  = {Connection Blocking In Quotients of $Sol$},
  author = {Mohammadreza Bidar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.06415},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1706.07996; text overlap with arXiv:1211.7291 by other authors