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On conformally flat circle bundles over surfaces

Geometric Topology 2014-12-19 v1

Abstract

We study surface groups Γ\Gamma in SO(4,1)SO(4,1), which is the group of Mobius tranformations of S3S^3, and also the group of isometries of H4\mathbb{H}^4. We consider such Γ\Gamma so that its limit set ΛΓ\Lambda_\Gamma is a quasi-circle in S3S^3, and so that the quotient (S3ΛΓ)/Γ(S^3 - \Lambda_\Gamma) / \Gamma 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 SO(4,1)SO(4,1): starting inside the quasi-Fuschsian locus, going through non-discrete territory and back.

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@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

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