The Covariance Metric in the Blaschke Locus

authored by
Xian Dai, Nikolas Eptaminitakis
Abstract

We prove that the Blaschke locus has the structure of a finite dimensional smooth manifold away from the Teichmüller space and study its Riemannian manifold structure with respect to the covariance metric introduced by Guillarmou, Knieper and Lefeuvre in Guillarmou et al. in (Ergod Theory Dyn Syst 43:974–1022, 2021). We also identify some families of geodesics in the Blaschke locus arising from Hitchin representations for orbifolds and show that they have infinite length with respect to the covariance metric.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Differential Geometry
External Organisation(s)
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Type
Article
Journal
Journal of Geometric Analysis
Volume
34
No. of pages
54
ISSN
1050-6926
Publication date
05.2024
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Geometry and Topology
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.05289 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-024-01586-w (Access: Open)