REPRESENTATIONS OF TRIANGLE GROUPS IN COMPLEX HYPERBOLIC / REPRESENTAÇÕES DE GRUPOS TRIANGULARES EM GEOMETRIA HIPERBÓLICA COMPLEXA
AUTOR(ES)
LUIS FERNANDO CROCCO AFONSO
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2003
RESUMO
The main aim of this work is to study type-preserving representations p: gamma PU(2, 1) of triangle groups _ in the group of holomorphic isometries of the twodimensional complex hyperbolic space H2C. The triangle group gamma(p, q, r) is the group generated by reflections in the sides of a geodesic triangle having angles pi/p, pi/q and pi/r. We focus our attention on the groups gamma(4,4, infinit) and gamma (4,infinit, infinit). Among other results, we prove that for each case: 1. There is a continuous path of representations pt which contains all type-preserving representations of gamma in PU (2,1) up to conjugation by isometries. This gives us a complete description of the representation space of gamma in PU(2,1). 2. There is a closed interval J such that pt is a discrete and faithful representation if and only if t belongs J. 3. On the boundary of the representation space there is a representation with accidental parabolic elements. To prove these results we give special parametrizations of triangles in H2C. We also build fundamental polyhedra for the groups and use a kind of Poincares Polyhedron Theorem.
ASSUNTO(S)
grupos discretos discrete groups geometria hiperbolica complexa complex hyperbolic geometry
