On the growth sequence for symplectically hyperbolic manifolds

We study the growth rate of a sequence which measures the uniform norm of the differential under the iterates of maps. On symplectically hyperbolic manifolds, we show that this sequence has at least linear growth for every non-identical symplectomorphisms which are symplectically isotopic to the identity.     

On Finsler manifolds with hyperbolic geodesic flows

Archiv der Mathematik - Let (M, F) be a closed $$C^infty $$ Finsler manifold and $$varphi $$ its geodesic flow. In the case that $$varphi $$ is Anosov, we extend to the Finsler setting...     

Symplectically hyperbolic manifolds

A symplectic form is called hyperbolic if its pull-back to the universal cover is a differential of a bounded one-form. The present paper is concerned with the properties and constructions of manifolds admitting hyperbolic symplectic forms. The main results are:

• If a symplectic form represents a bounded cohomology class then it is hyperbolic.

• The symplectic hyperbolicity is equivalent to a certain isoperimetric inequality.

• The fundamental group of symplectically hyperbolic manifold is non-amenable.

We also construct hyperbolic symplectic forms on certain bundles and Lefschetz fibrations, discuss the dependence of the symplectic hyperbolicity on the fundamental group and discuss some properties of the group of symplectic diffeomorphisms of a symplectically hyperbolic manifold.

On complexity of three-dimensional hyperbolic manifolds with geodesic boundary

The nonintersecting classes ? _p,q are defined, with p, q ?? ? and p ?? q ?? 1, of orientable hyperbolic 3-manifolds with geodesic boundary. If M ?? ? _p,q , then the complexity c(M) and the Euler characteristic ??(M) of M are related by the formula c(M) = p???(M). The classes ? _q,q , q ?? 1, and ?_2,1 are known to contain infinite series of manifolds for each of which the exact values of complexity were found. There is given an infinite series of manifolds from ?_3,1 and obtained exact values of complexity for these manifolds. The method of proof is based on calculating the ?-invariants of manifolds.     

On the non-vanishing of the first Betti number of hyperbolic three manifolds

We show the non-vanishing of cohomology groups of sufficiently small congruence lattices in SL(1,D), where D is a quaternion division algebra defined over a number field E contained inside a solvable extension of a totally real number field. As a corollary, we obtain new examples of compact, arithmetic, hyperbolic three manifolds, with non-torsion first homology group, confirming a conjecture of Waldhausen. The proof uses the characterisation of the image of solvable base change by the author, and the construction of cusp forms with non-zero cusp cohomology by Labesse and Schwermer.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 11F75, 22E40, 57M50Revised version: 18 February 2004     

Cusp closing of hyperbolic manifolds

A general method to produce infinitely many pairwise homotopically nonequivalent closed manifolds using the cusp closing construction is presented. An infinite sequence of closed homotopically nonequivalent real analytic Riemannian 5-manifolds with uniformly bounded volumes and uniformly bounded nonpositive sectional curvatures, which are allowed to vanish along codimension two submanifolds only, is constructed using this method.Both authors were supported in part by the Grant R24000 from the International Science Foundation.     

Quasiconformal homogeneity of hyperbolic manifolds

We exhibit strong constraints on the geometry and topology of a uniformly quasiconformally homogeneous hyperbolic manifold. In particular, if n3, a hyperbolic n-manifold is uniformly quasiconformally homogeneous if and only if it is a regular cover of a closed hyperbolic orbifold. Moreover, if n3, we show that there is a constant K_n>1 such that if M is a hyperbolic n-manifold, other than which is K–quasiconformally homogeneous, then KK_n.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 30C60Research supported in part by NSF grant 070335 and 0305704.Research supported in part by NSF grant 0203698.Research supported in part by the NZ Marsden Fund and the Royal Society (NZ).Research supported in part by NSF grant 0305704.     

On the structure of two-generated hyperbolic groups

We show that every two-generated torsion-free one-ended word-hyperbolic group has virtually cyclic outer automorphism group. This is done by computing the JSJ-decomposition for two-generator hyperbolic groups. We further prove that two-generated torsion-free word-hyperbolic groups are strongly accessible. This means that they can be constructed from groups with no nontrivial cyclic splittings by applying finitely many free products with amalgamation and HNN-extensions over cyclic subgroups. Received June 25, 1998     

Pinching constants for hyperbolic manifolds

Summary We show in this paper that for everyn4 there exists a closedn-dimensional manifoldV which carries a Riemannian metric with negative sectional curvatureK but which admits no metric with constant curvatureK–1. We also estimate the (pinching) constantsH for which our manifoldsV admit metrics with –1K–H.     

Balls in complex hyperbolic manifolds

We get an explicit lower bound for the radius of a Bergman ball contained in the Dirichlet fundamental polyhedron of a torsion free discrete group G伡PU(n,1)acting on complex hyperbolic space.As an application,we also give a lower bound for the volumes of complex hyperbolic n-manifolds.     

Finite groups and hyperbolic manifolds

The isometry group of a compact n-dimensional hyperbolic manifold is known to be finite. We show that for every n≥2, every finite group is realized as the full isometry group of some compact hyperbolic n-manifold. The cases n=2 and n=3 have been proven by Greenberg (1974) and Kojima (1988), respectively. Our proof is non constructive: it uses counting results from subgroup growth theory to show that such manifolds exist.     

Coxeter groups and hyperbolic manifolds

The theory of Coxeter groups is used to provide an algebraic construction of finite volume hyperbolic manifolds. Combinatorial properties of finite images of these groups can be used to compute the volumes of the resulting manifolds. Three examples, in 4,5 and 6-dimensions, are given, each of very small volume, and in one case of smallest possible volume.The author is grateful to Patrick Dorey for a number of helpful conversations.Revised version: 22 December 2003     

Systolic volume of hyperbolic manifolds and connected sums of manifolds

The systolic volume of a closed n-manifold M is defined as the optimal constant σ(M) satisfying the inequality vol(M, g) ≥ σ(M) sys(M, g) ⁿ between the volume and the systole of every metric g on M. First, we show that the systolic volume of connected sums of closed oriented essential manifolds is unbounded. Then, we prove that the systolic volume of every sequence of closed hyperbolic (three-dimensional) manifolds is also unbounded. These results generalize systolic inequalities on surfaces in two different directions.      

On the prime geodesic theorem for hyperbolic 3‐manifolds

Through the Selberg zeta approach, we reduce the exponent in the error term of the prime geodesic theorem for cocompact Kleinian groups or Bianchi groups from Sarnak's to . At the cost of excluding a set of finite logarithmic measure, the bound is further improved to .     

L 2-torsion of hyperbolic manifolds

We show that the L ²-torsion of odd dimensional hyperbolic manifolds, which is proportional to the volume, is non-zero. This proves a conjecture of Lott. Received: 27 March 1998