Margulis multiverse: Infinitesimal rigidity, pressure form and convexity

Ghosh, Sourav

doi:10.1090/tran/8864

Margulis multiverse: Infinitesimal rigidity, pressure form and convexity
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Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 376 (2023), 4239-4272

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8864

Published electronically: February 28, 2023

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Abstract:

In this article we construct the pressure forms on the moduli spaces of higher dimensional Margulis spacetimes without cusps and study their properties. We show that the Margulis spacetimes are infinitesimally determined by their marked Margulis invariant spectra. We use this fact to show that the restrictions of the pressure form give Riemannian metrics on the constant entropy sections of the quotient moduli space. We also show that constant entropy sections of the moduli space with fixed linear parts bound convex domains.

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