Density of Zariski density for surface groups
Differential Geometry
2015-01-14 v1
Abstract
We show that a surface group contained in a reductive real algebraic group can be deformed to become Zariski dense, unless its Zariski closure acts transitively on a Hermitian symmetric space of tube type. This is a kind of converse to a rigidity result of Burger, Iozzi and Wienhard.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1009.2258,
title = {Density of Zariski density for surface groups},
author = {Inkang Kim and Pierre Pansu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.2258},
year = {2015}
}