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Generalized Patterson-Sullivan measures for products of Hadamard spaces

Metric Geometry 2011-07-20 v1 Dynamical Systems Group Theory

Abstract

Let Γ\Gamma be a discrete group acting by isometries on a product X=X1×X2X=X_1\times X_2 of Hadamard spaces. We further require that X1X_1, X2X_2 are locally compact and Γ\Gamma contains two elements projecting to a pair of independent rank one isometries in each factor. Apart from discrete groups acting by isometries on a product of CAT(-1)-spaces, the probably most interesting examples of such groups are Kac-Moody groups over finite fields acting on the Davis complex of their associated twin building. In a previous article we showed that the regular geometric limit set \Lim\Lim splits as a product FΓ×PΓF_\Gamma\times P_\Gamma, where FΓ\rand1×\rand2F_\Gamma\subseteq\rand_1\times \rand_2 is the projection of the geometric limit set to \rand1×\rand2\rand_1\times \rand_2, and PΓP_\Gamma encodes the ratios of the speed of divergence of orbit points in each factor. Our aim in this paper is a description of the limit set from a measure theoretical point of view. We first study the conformal density obtained from the classical Patterson-Sullivan construction, then generalize this construction to obtain measures supported in each Γ\Gamma-invariant subset of the regular limit set and investigate their properties. Finally we show that the Hausdorff dimension of the radial limit set in each Γ\Gamma-invariant subset of \Lim\Lim is bounded above by the exponential growth rate introduced in the previous article.

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@article{arxiv.1107.3755,
  title  = {Generalized Patterson-Sullivan measures for products of Hadamard spaces},
  author = {Gabriele Link},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.3755},
  year   = {2011}
}

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