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Lyapunov spectrum of ball quotients with applications to commensurability questions

André Kappes and Martin Möller

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Abstract

We determine the Lyapunov spectrum of ball quotients arising from cyclic coverings. The computations are performed by rewriting the sum of Lyapunov exponents as ratios of intersection numbers and by the analysis of the period map near boundary divisors.

As a corollary, we complete the classification of commensurability classes of all presently known nonarithmetic ball quotients.

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Source
Duke Math. J., Volume 165, Number 1 (2016), 1-66.

Dates
Received: 6 November 2012
Revised: 2 July 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 14 October 2015

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1444828413

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doi:10.1215/00127094-3165969

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3450741

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1334.22010

Subjects
Primary: 22E40: Discrete subgroups of Lie groups [See also 20Hxx, 32Nxx]

Keywords
Lyapunov spectrum nonarithmetric lattices period maps

Citation

Kappes, André; Möller, Martin. Lyapunov spectrum of ball quotients with applications to commensurability questions. Duke Math. J. 165 (2016), no. 1, 1--66. doi:10.1215/00127094-3165969. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1444828413


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