Seminar:
Group Actions, Geometry and Dynamics
Event time:
Thursday, November 16, 2023 - 4:00pm
Location:
KT205
Speaker:
Richard Canary
Speaker affiliation:
University of Michigan
Event description:
Transverse subgroups of semi-simple Lie groups include all discrete subgroups of rank one Lie groups and Anosov and relatively Anosov subgroups of higher rank Lie groups. Every transverse group comes equipped with a family of “geodesic flows’’ associated to linear functionals on the Cartan subspace. The assumption of transversality allows for the construction of well-behaved Patterson-Sullivan measures on the limit set and associated Bowen-Margulis-Sullivan measures on the flows. We discuss a Hopf-Tsuji-Sullivan dichotomy in this context. Finally, we show that relatively Anosov groups live on the divergent side of this dichotomy (Joint work with Tengren Zhang and Andy Zimmer)