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We prove that Anosov representations from a surface group to SL(3,R) are uniquely determined by their boundary maps if and only if they do not factor over a completely reducible representation. Furthermore we discuss representations not…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-01 Sungwoon Kim , Thilo Kuessner

We provide a link between Anosov representations introduced by Labourie and dominated splitting of linear cocycles. This allows us to obtain equivalent characterizations for Anosov representations and to recover recent results due to…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Jairo Bochi , Rafael Potrie , Andrés Sambarino

In this article, we prove an analog of the classical collar lemma in the setting of Hitchin representations.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Gye-Seon Lee , Tengren Zhang

Relatively dominated representations give a common generalization of geometrically finiteness in rank one on the one hand, and the Anosov condition which serves as a higher-rank analogue of convex cocompactness on the other. This note…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Feng Zhu

We characterize groups admitting Anosov representations into $\mathsf{SL}(3,\mathbb R)$, projective Anosov representations into $\mathsf{SL}(4,\mathbb R)$, and Borel Anosov representations into $\mathsf{SL}(4,\mathbb R)$. More generally, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Richard Canary , Konstantinos Tsouvalas

In arXiv:1802.02833 Guichard and Wienhard introduced the notion of $\Theta$-positivity, a generalization of Lusztig's total positivity to real Lie groups that are not necessarily split. Based on this notion, we introduce in this paper…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Olivier Guichard , François Labourie , Anna Wienhard

For uniform lattices $\Gamma$ in rank 1 Lie groups, we construct Anosov representations of virtual doubles of $\Gamma$ along certain quasiconvex subgroups. We also show that virtual HNN extensions of these lattices over some cyclic…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Subhadip Dey , Konstantinos Tsouvalas

We introduce \emph{k-positive representations}, a large class of $\{1,\ldots,k\}$--Anosov surface group representations into PGL(E) that share many features with Hitchin representations, and we study their degenerations: unless they are…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Jonas Beyrer , Beatrice Pozzetti

We introduce and study \emph{simple Anosov representations} of closed hyperbolic surface groups, analogous to Minsky's \emph{primitive stable representations} of free groups. We prove that the set of simple Anosov representations into…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Nicolas Tholozan , Tianqi Wang

We study a notion of convex cocompactness for discrete subgroups of the projective general linear group acting (not necessarily irreducibly) on real projective space, and give various characterizations. A convex cocompact group in this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-04-19 Jeffrey Danciger , François Guéritaud , Fanny Kassel

We establish an entropy rigidity theorem for Hitchin representations of all geometrically finite Fuchsian groups which generalizes a theorem of Potrie and Sambarino for Hitchin representations of closed surface groups. In the process, we…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Richard Canary , Tengren Zhang , Andrew Zimmer

We show that uniform lattices in some semi-simple groups (notably complex ones) admit Anosov surface subgroups. This result has a quantitative version: we introduce a notion, called $K$-Sullivan maps, which generalizes the notion of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Jeremy Kahn , François Labourie , Shahar Mozes

We study Hitchin representations and maximal symplectic representations of surface groups, which can be both thought of as generalisations of Fuchsian representations. We show that the corresponding energy functionals are proper on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Labourie

We study a particular class of representations from the fundamental groups of punctured spheres $\Sigma_{0,n}$ to the group $\text{PSL} (2,\mathbb R)$ (and their moduli spaces), that we call \emph{super-maximal}. Super-maximal…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Bertrand Deroin , Nicolas Tholozan

We discuss how one uses the thermodynamic formalism to produce metrics on higher Teichm\"uller spaces. Our higher Teichm\"uller spaces will be spaces of Anosov representations of a word-hyperbolic group into a semi-simple Lie group. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Martin Bridgeman , Richard Canary , Andrés Sambarino

For compact Riemann surfaces, the collar theorem and Bers' partition theorem are major tools for working with simple closed geodesics. The main goal of this paper is to prove similar theorems for hyperbolic cone-surfaces. Hyperbolic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-08-23 Emily B. Dryden , Hugo Parlier

The first part of this paper surveys several characterizations of Teichm\"uller space as a subset of the space of representation of the fundamental group of a surface into PSL(2,R). Special emphasis is put on (bounded) cohomological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Marc Burger , Alessandra Iozzi , Anna Wienhard

Let $\mathbb F$ be a real closed field. We define the notion of a maximal framing for a representation of the fundamental group of a surface with values in ${\rm Sp}(2n,\mathbb F)$. We show that ultralimits of maximal representations in…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Marc Burger , Maria Beatrice Pozzetti

In this article we give a geometric interpretation of the Hitchin component for PSL(4,R) in the representation variety of a closed oriented surface of higher genus. We show that representations in the Hitchin component are precisely the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Olivier Guichard , Anna Wienhard

We establish several characterizations of Anosov representations of word hyperbolic groups into real reductive Lie groups, in terms of a Cartan projection or Lyapunov projection of the Lie group. Using a properness criterion of Benoist and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-15 François Guéritaud , Olivier Guichard , Fanny Kassel , Anna Wienhard