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Local rigidity for hyperbolic groups with Sierpiński carpet boundaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2014

Sergei Merenkov*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Department of Mathematics,The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA email merenkov@illinois.edu, smerenkov@ccny.cuny.edu
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Let $G$ and $\tilde{G}$ be Kleinian groups whose limit sets $S$ and $\tilde{S}$, respectively, are homeomorphic to the standard Sierpiński carpet, and such that every complementary component of each of $S$ and $\tilde{S}$ is a round disc. We assume that the groups $G$ and $\tilde{G}$ act cocompactly on triples on their respective limit sets. The main theorem of the paper states that any quasiregular map (in a suitably defined sense) from an open connected subset of $S$ to $\tilde{S}$ is the restriction of a Möbius transformation that takes $S$ onto $\tilde{S}$, in particular it has no branching. This theorem applies to the fundamental groups of compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with non-empty totally geodesic boundaries. One consequence of the main theorem is the following result. Assume that $G$ is a torsion-free hyperbolic group whose boundary at infinity $\partial _{\infty }G$ is a Sierpiński carpet that embeds quasisymmetrically into the standard 2-sphere. Then there exists a group $H$ that contains $G$ as a finite index subgroup and such that any quasisymmetric map $f$ between open connected subsets of $\partial _{\infty }G$ is the restriction of the induced boundary map of an element $h\in H$.

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