Large and small covers of a hyperbolic manifold
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Large and small covers of a hyperbolic manifold
zbMATH Open document ID: 1272.30062
author: Petra Bonfert-Taylor
author: Katsuhiko Matsuzaki
published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis
publication date: 2012-12-04T00:00:00Z
review text: For a discrete subgroup \(\Gamma\) of the isometry group of the hyperbolic space \(\mathbb H^{n+1}\), we denote by \(\delta(\Gamma)\) the exponent of convergence of its Poincaré series. By work of \textit{C. J. Bishop} and \textit{P. W. Jones} [Acta Math. 179, No. 1, 1--39 (1997; Zbl 0921.30032)] it is known that \(\delta(\Gamma)\) coincides with the Hausdorff dimension of the conical limit set of \(\Gamma\). In the paper under review, the authors focus on the behaviour of \(\delta\) under taking non-trivial normal subgroups. \textit{K. Falk} and \textit{B. O. Stratmann} [Tohoku Math. J., II. Ser. 56, No. 4, 571--582 (2004; Zbl 1069.30070)] showed that if \(\hat \Gamma\) is a non-trivial normal subgroup of a non-elementary \(\Gamma\), then \(\delta(\hat \Gamma) \geq \delta(\Gamma)/2\). In the present paper, it is shown that in the case when \(n=1\) and \(\Gamma\) is a Fuchsian group corresponding to a closed hyperbolic surface, this inequality is in a sense best possible: there is a sequence of normal subgroups \(\Gamma_i\) with \(\delta(\Gamma_i)\) tending to \(1/2\). Furthermore, it is also shown that when \(\Gamma\) is non-elementary and convex cocompact for arbitrary \(n\), for any non-trivial normal subgroup \(\hat \Gamma\), the strict inequality \(\delta(\hat \Gamma) > \delta(\Gamma)/2\) holds. In contrast to these results, the authors also show that in the 3-dimensional cocompact case, there is a normal subgroup with large \(\delta\): when \(\mathbb H^3/\Gamma\) is a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold fibring over a circle, for any \(\epsilon >0\) there is a Schottky subgroup \(G\) of \(\Gamma\) with \(\delta(G)>2-\epsilon\).
reviewed by: Ken'ichi Ohshika
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 30F40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M50
zbMATH DE Number: 6112514
zbMATH Keywords: Kleinian group
zbMATH Keywords: hyperbolic space
zbMATH Keywords: exponent of convergence
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: s12220-010-9204-6
OpenAlex ID: W2032624597
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DOI: 10.1007/S12220-010-9204-6
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