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Limit cones of multi-Fuchsian representations

Geometric Topology 2026-04-23 v2

Abstract

We study the set of normalized multi-lengths for representations of closed surface groups and free groups into (PSL2R)d(\mathrm{PSL}_2\mathbf{R})^d whose projections to PSL2R\mathrm{PSL}_2\mathbf{R} are all convex cocompact. These multi-lengths define a convex cone in R0d\mathbf{R}^d_{\geq 0}, called the limit cone. When d=3d=3, we show the coexistence of different regimes: for some representations the limit cone has only a finite number of sides, which we can force to grow like the genus (or free rank); for other representations, extremal rays are dense in the boundary of the limit cone. We also give examples where the limit cone varies discontinuously with the representation.

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@article{arxiv.2512.04684,
  title  = {Limit cones of multi-Fuchsian representations},
  author = {Jeffrey Danciger and François Guéritaud and Fanny Kassel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.04684},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

28 pages, 8 figures. Added Section 6 on discontinuity of limit cones

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:09:16.604Z