The Manhattan curve, ergodic theory of topological flows and rigidity

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Main Authors: Cantrell, Stephen, Tanaka, Ryokichi
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author Cantrell, Stephen
Tanaka, Ryokichi
author_facet Cantrell, Stephen
Tanaka, Ryokichi
contents For every non-elementary hyperbolic group, we introduce the Manhattan curve associated to any pair of left-invariant hyperbolic metrics which are quasi-isometric to a word metric. It is convex; we show that it is continuously differentiable and moreover is a straight line if and only if the corresponding two metrics are roughly similar, i.e., they are within bounded distance after multiplying by a positive constant. Further, we prove that the Manhattan curve associated to two strongly hyperbolic metrics is twice continuously differentiable. The proof is based on the ergodic theory of topological flows associated to general hyperbolic groups and analyzing the multifractal structure of Patterson-Sullivan measures. We exhibit some explicit examples including a hyperbolic triangle group and compute the exact value of the mean distortion for pairs of word metrics.
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spellingShingle The Manhattan curve, ergodic theory of topological flows and rigidity
Cantrell, Stephen
Tanaka, Ryokichi
Dynamical Systems
Group Theory
Geometric Topology
Primary 20F67, Secondary 37D35, 37D40
For every non-elementary hyperbolic group, we introduce the Manhattan curve associated to any pair of left-invariant hyperbolic metrics which are quasi-isometric to a word metric. It is convex; we show that it is continuously differentiable and moreover is a straight line if and only if the corresponding two metrics are roughly similar, i.e., they are within bounded distance after multiplying by a positive constant. Further, we prove that the Manhattan curve associated to two strongly hyperbolic metrics is twice continuously differentiable. The proof is based on the ergodic theory of topological flows associated to general hyperbolic groups and analyzing the multifractal structure of Patterson-Sullivan measures. We exhibit some explicit examples including a hyperbolic triangle group and compute the exact value of the mean distortion for pairs of word metrics.
title The Manhattan curve, ergodic theory of topological flows and rigidity
topic Dynamical Systems
Group Theory
Geometric Topology
Primary 20F67, Secondary 37D35, 37D40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13451