The geometry Anosov subgroups in Lie groups

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• 批准号: RGPIN-2020-05557
• 负责人: Burelle, JeanPhilippe
• 金额: $ 1.31万
• 依托单位: Université de Sherbrooke
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=717405
• 关键词: geometry; Anosov; subgroups; Lie; groups

The field of locally homogeneous geometric structures on manifolds generalizes the field of cartography, in the following sense : drawing an atlas of the world is like trying to describe the shape of the earth using flat geometry, and a locally homogeneous geometric structure is like trying to describe the shape of a more general world (or manifold) using some homogeneous geometry. One of the first theorems in the subject states that it is in fact impossible to construct a complete atlas of the world without distortion, that is, that there exists no Euclidean (flat) structure on the two-dimensional sphere. Already in the study of flat structures, the Bieberbach theorems exemplify the tight relationship between geometric structures and groups of symmetries. These theorems imply that, up to finite covers, the only finite-area flat structures in 2 dimensions are similar to the world of Pac-man, that is, they are obtained by identifying parallel edges of a parallelogram. It is no coincidence that the parallelogram can tile the plane by translating multiple copies of itself, creating a tiling with translational symmetry. The study of symmetries between objects or concepts is foundational to a range of topics in pure and applied mathematics and in other sciences. We say that an object has continuous symmetry if its symmetries can be very small motions, for instance a very small rotation of a sphere is a symmetry, so it has continuous symmetry. We say that it has discrete symmetry if this is not the case, for instance a cube has discrete symmetry because it only has 90 degree rotational symmetry. The symmetries of the cube are a subset of the symmetries of the sphere. Similarly, the plane has continuous symmetry but a parallelogram tiling has discrete symmetry within the symmetries of the plane. My field lies at the intersection between the study of geometric structures and the study of discrete subgroups of continuous groups, which generalize the symmetry discussion above. I will investigate a range of examples which are generalizations of the above and work towards solutions to classification problems in those cases. These examples can then be used to formulate general conjectures and theorems. Some of the examples I am interested in have the local geometry of Einstein's static universe, a toy model of spacetime in 3 dimensions. Some more examples have local projective geometry, the type of geometry used in 3D computer graphics. Having a better understanding of these more general notions of geometry and symmetry provides important insight into the fundamental relationship between the two.

流形上的局部齐次几何结构领域概括了地图学领域，在以下意义上：绘制世界地图集就像试图用平面几何来描述地球的形状，而局部齐次几何结构就像试图用一些齐次几何来描述更一般的世界（或流形）的形状。这门学科最早的定理之一指出，事实上不可能在不扭曲的情况下构造一个完整的世界地图集，也就是说，在二维球面上不存在欧几里得（平面）结构。在平面结构的研究中，比伯巴赫定理证明了几何结构和对称群之间的紧密关系。这些定理表明，在有限覆盖范围内，二维空间中唯一的有限面积平面结构类似于吃豆人的世界，也就是说，它们是通过识别平行四边形的平行边获得的。平行四边形可以通过平移自身的多个副本来平铺平面，从而产生具有平移对称的平铺，这并非巧合。