On conformally flat circle bundles over surfaces
Abstract
We study surface groups in , which is the group of Mobius tranformations of , and also the group of isometries of . We consider such so that its limit set is a quasi-circle in , and so that the quotient is a circle bundle over a surface. This circle bundle is said to be conformally flat, and our main goal is to discover how twisted such bundle may be by establishing a bound on its Euler number. By combinatorial approaches, we have two soft bounds in this direction on certain types of nice structures. In this article we also construct new examples, a "grafting" type path in the space of surface group representations into : starting inside the quasi-Fuschsian locus, going through non-discrete territory and back.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.5824,
title = {On conformally flat circle bundles over surfaces},
author = {Son Lam Ho},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5824},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
28 pages, 7 figures. Updated from Thesis version: more correct bound of (3/2)n^2, updated exposition in section 3.1