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Certifying Anosov representations

Group Theory 2026-03-10 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

By providing new finite criteria which certify that a finitely generated subgroup of SL(d,R)\mathrm{SL}(d,\mathbb{R}) or SL(d,C)\mathrm{SL}(d,\mathbb{C}) is projective Anosov, we obtain a practical algorithm to verify the Anosov condition. We demonstrate on a surface group of genus 2 in SL(3,R)\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R}) by verifying the criteria for all words of length 8. The previous version required checking all words of length 22 million.

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@article{arxiv.2409.08015,
  title  = {Certifying Anosov representations},
  author = {J. Maxwell Riestenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.08015},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

15 pages. Exposition and a figure added

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