Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society

Table of Contents - December 1998 - Volume 58, Issue 03  

Research Article

Coordinates of the representation space in the semisimple Lie group of rank one

Inkang Kima1 p1

a1 Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720, United States of America

Abstract

In this paper we show that the space of irreducible representations from a finitely presented group into the group of isometries of a rank one symmetric space of non-compact type, embeds into xs211Dn for some n, where the coordinates are the translation lengths of isometries in the representation. The ingredients of the proof consist of the two facts that the representation is determined by its marked length spectrum and that the nested sequence of algebraic subvarieties is stabilised at a finite step by the Noetherian property of the polynomial ring. As a minor application, we use this fact to simplify McMullen's proof about the exponential algebraic convergence of Thurston's double limit to the geometrically infinite manifold in the space of discrete faithful representations of π1(S) in Iso+ S000497270003241X_inline1.

(Received March 23 1998)

Correspondence:

p1 Department of Mathematics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technolog, 373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-ku, Taejon 305-701, Korea, e-mail: inkang@mathx.kaist.ac.kr