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Fiber bundles associated with Anosov representations

Geometric Topology 2023-03-21 v1 Differential Geometry Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Anosov representations ρ\rho of a hyperbolic group Γ\Gamma into a semisimple Lie group GG are known to admit cocompact domains of discontinuity in flag varieties G/QG/Q, endowing the compact quotient manifolds MρM_\rho with a (G,G/Q)(G,G/Q)-structure. In general the topology of MρM_\rho can be quite complicated. In this article, we consider the case when Γ\Gamma is the fundamental group of a closed (real or complex) hyperbolic manifold NN and ρ\rho is a deformation of a (twisted) lattice embedding ΓIsom(HK)G\Gamma \to \mathrm{Isom}(\mathbb H_\mathbb K) \to G through Anosov representations. We prove that, in this situation, MρM_\rho is alway a smooth fiber bundle over NN. Determining the topology of the fiber seems hard in general. The second part of the paper focuses on the special case when NN is a surface, ρ\rho a quasi-Hitchin representation into Sp(4,C)\mathrm{Sp}(4,\mathbb C), and MρM_\rho is modelled on the space of complex Lagrangians in C4\mathbb C^4. We show that, in this case, the fiber is homeomorphic to CP2CP2\mathbb{CP}^2 \sharp \overline{\mathbb{CP}^2}.

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@article{arxiv.2303.10786,
  title  = {Fiber bundles associated with Anosov representations},
  author = {Daniele Alessandrini and Sara Maloni and Nicolas Tholozan and Anna Wienhard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.10786},
  year   = {2023}
}
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