Limit sets and convex cocompact groups in higher rank symmetric spaces

Kim, Sungwoon

doi:10.1090/proc/14228

Limit sets and convex cocompact groups in higher rank symmetric spaces
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Abstract:

We show that every limit point of a Zariski dense discrete subgroup $\Gamma$ of the isometry group of a symmetric space of noncompact type is conical if and only if $\Gamma$ is convex cocompact.

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