Tilings and finite energy retractions of locally symmetric spaces
Tilings and finite energy retractions of locally symmetric spaces
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局部对称空间的平铺和有限能量回缩
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1997
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Leslie Saper
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Leslie Saper
Abstract. Let
$ Gamma ackslash overline{X} $ be the Borel-Serre compactifiction of an arithmetic quotient
$ Gamma ackslash X $ of a symmetric space of noncompact type. We construct natural tilings
$ Gamma ackslash overline{X} = coprod _P Gamma ackslash overline{X}_P $ (depending on a parameter b) which generalize the Arthur-Langlands partition of
$ Gamma ackslash X $. This is applied to yield a natural piecewise analytic deformation retraction of
$ Gamma ackslash overline{X} $ onto a compact submanifold with corners
$ Gamma ackslash X _0 subset Gamma ackslash X $. In fact, we prove that
$ Gamma ackslash X _0 $ is a realization (under a natural piecewise analytic diffeomorphism) of
$ Gamma ackslash overline{X} $ inside the interior
$ Gamma ackslash X $. For application to the theory of harmonic maps and geometric rigidity, we prove this retraction and diffeomorphism have finite energy except for a few low ranks examples. We also use tilings to give an explicit description of a cofinal family of neighborhoods of a face of
$ Gamma ackslash overline{X} $, and study the dependance of tilings on the parameter b and the degeneration of tilings.