English

Entropy and affine actions for surface groups

Differential Geometry 2020-11-13 v3 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We give an independent proof of a theorem of Danciger of Zhang: surface groups with Hitchin linear part cannot act properly on the affine space

Cite

@article{arxiv.1908.00599,
  title  = {Entropy and affine actions for surface groups},
  author = {François Labourie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00599},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

11 pages, v2 grant info updated, v3 clarifications in the proofs -- in particular new versions of Lemma 4.3 and 6.4, thanks to a careful reading by an independent reader

R2 v1 2026-06-23T10:37:42.604Z