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Convex cocompact actions in real projective geometry

Geometric Topology 2023-04-19 v4 Group Theory

Abstract

We study a notion of convex cocompactness for discrete subgroups of the projective general linear group acting (not necessarily irreducibly) on real projective space, and give various characterizations. A convex cocompact group in this sense need not be word hyperbolic, but we show that it still has some of the good properties of classical convex cocompact subgroups in rank-one Lie groups. Extending our earlier work arXiv:1701.09136 from the context of projective orthogonal groups, we show that for word hyperbolic groups preserving a properly convex open set in projective space, the above general notion of convex cocompactness is equivalent to a stronger convex cocompactness condition studied by Crampon-Marquis, and also to the condition that the natural inclusion be a projective Anosov representation. We investigate examples.

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@article{arxiv.1704.08711,
  title  = {Convex cocompact actions in real projective geometry},
  author = {Jeffrey Danciger and François Guéritaud and Fanny Kassel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08711},
  year   = {2023}
}

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85 pages, 9 figures

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