Simple length rigidity for Kleinian surface groups and applications

Abstract

We prove that a Kleinian surface groups is determined, up to conjugacy in the isometry group of $\mathbb H^3$, by its simple marked length spectrum. As a first application, we show that a discrete faithful representation of the fundamental group of a compact, acylindrical, hyperbolizable 3-manifold $M$ is similarly determined by the translation lengths of images of elements of $π_1(M)$ represented by simple curves on the boundary of $M$. As a second application, we show the group of diffeomorphisms of quasifuchsian space which preserve the renormalized intersection number is generated by the (extended) mapping class group and complex conjugation.