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Uniform exponential mixing for congruence covers of convex cocompact hyperbolic manifolds

Dynamical Systems 2024-06-28 v2 Geometric Topology Spectral Theory

Abstract

Let Γ\Gamma be a Zariski dense convex cocompact subgroup contained in an arithmetic lattice of SO(n,1)\operatorname{SO}(n, 1)^{\circ}. We prove uniform exponential mixing of the geodesic flow for congruence covers of the hyperbolic manifold Γ\Hn\Gamma \backslash \mathbb{H}^n avoiding finitely many prime ideals. This extends the work of Oh-Winter who proved the result for the n=2n = 2 case. Following their approach, we use Dolgopyat's method for the proof of exponential mixing of the geodesic flow. We do this uniformly over congruence covers by establishing uniform spectral bounds for the congruence transfer operators associated to the geodesic flow. This requires another key ingredient which is the expander machinery due to Bourgain-Gamburd-Sarnak extended by Golsefidy-Varj\'{u}.

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@article{arxiv.1903.00825,
  title  = {Uniform exponential mixing for congruence covers of convex cocompact hyperbolic manifolds},
  author = {Pratyush Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.00825},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

72 pages; not intended for publication; added minor improvements throughout and more details in $\S 4.1$; the full trace field condition is not treated in $\S 3.3$ and hence only holds for $\mathbb{K} = \mathbb{Q}$; see $\S 8$ in arXiv:2006.07787 (published) for the full trace field condition for general number fields $\mathbb{K}$