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Exponential mixing of frame flows for convex cocompact locally symmetric spaces

Dynamical Systems 2025-02-25 v2 Differential Geometry Spectral Theory

Abstract

Let GG be a connected center-free simple real algebraic group of rank one and Γ<G\Gamma < G be a Zariski dense torsion-free convex cocompact subgroup. We prove that the frame flow on Γ\G\Gamma \backslash G, i.e., the right translation action of a one-parameter subgroup {at}tR<G\{a_t\}_{t \in \mathbb R} < G of semisimple elements, is exponentially mixing with respect to the Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measure. The key step is proving suitable generalizations of the local non-integrability condition and the non-concentration property which are essential for Dolgopyat's method. This generalizes the work of Sarkar-Winter for G=SO(n,1)G = \operatorname{SO}(n, 1)^\circ and also strengthens the mixing result of Winter in the convex cocompact case.

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@article{arxiv.2211.14737,
  title  = {Exponential mixing of frame flows for convex cocompact locally symmetric spaces},
  author = {Michael Chow and Pratyush Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14737},
  year   = {2025}
}

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