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Natural maps for measurable cocycles of compact hyperbolic manifolds

ContributorsSavini, Alessioorcid
Published inJournal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, vol. 22, no. 1, p. 421-448
Publication date2023-01
First online date2021-09-29
Abstract

Let G(n) be equal to either PO(n,1), PU(n,1) or PSp(n,1) and let Γ ≤ G(n) be a uniform lattice. Denote by Hn K the hyperbolic space associated to G(n), where K is a division algebra over the reals of dimension d. Assume d(n−1) ≥ 2. In this article we generalise natural maps to measurable cocycles. Given a standard Borel probability Γ-space (X,μX), we assume that a measurable cocycle σ : Γ×X →G(m) admits an essentially unique boundary map φ : ∂∞Hn K ×X →∂∞HmK whose slices φx : Hn K →HmK are atomless for almost every x ∈ X. Then there exists a σ-equivariant measurable map F : Hn K ×X → HmK whose slices Fx : Hn K → HmK are differentiable for almost every x ∈X and such that Jaca Fx ≤ 1 for every a ∈ Hn K and almost every x ∈X. This allows us to define the natural volume NV(σ) of the cocycle σ. This number satisfies the inequality NV(σ) ≤ Vol(Γ\Hn K). Additionally, the equality holds if and only if σ is cohomologous to the cocycle induced by the standard lattice embedding i : Γ→G(n) ≤ G(m), modulo possibly a compact subgroup of G(m) when m>n. Given a continuous map f : M → N between compact hyperbolic manifolds, we also obtain an adaptation of the mapping degree theorem to this context.

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SAVINI, Alessio. Natural maps for measurable cocycles of compact hyperbolic manifolds. In: Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, 2023, vol. 22, n° 1, p. 421–448. doi: 10.1017/s1474748021000475
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