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The critical exponent of the Falconer functional for Anosov representations

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 37 references
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Abstract

We study the critical exponent of the Falconer functional for projective Anosov representations with Lipschitz limit sets and its relationship to the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set. Extending a result of Pozzetti, Sambarino, and Wienhard, we show, under density and irreducibility assumptions on the representation, that this exponent equals the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set. We also show that these assumptions are necessary for the strategy used there and in the present paper. To this end, we study the action of $\mathrm{SO}(p,p)$ on the space of maximal isotropic subspaces of $\mathbb R^{p,p}$ and provide examples of $\mathbf H^{p,q}$-convex-cocompact representations of lattices with virtual cohomological dimension $p$. Besides yielding counterexamples to seemingly innocent claims about irreducible representations in $\mathrm{SO}(p,q+1)$, these examples are of independent interest: they admit equivariant spacelike embeddings of Riemannian symmetric spaces into $\mathbf H^{p,q}$ on which uniform lattices act cocompactly.

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