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Dirichlet domains for Anosov subgroups

Abstract

We introduce a sufficient condition for a finitely generated subgroup $Γ$ of a semisimple Lie group $G$ to admit finite-sided Dirichlet domains for polyhedral Finsler metrics on the symmetric space $G/K$. The condition always implies the $Θ$-Anosov condition for some $Θ$, and can be arranged to be equivalent to the $Θ$-Anosov condition when $G$ is simple and $Θ$ is the set of long roots or the set of short roots. The Dirichlet domain we obtain extends to a fundamental domain for the action of $Γ$ on a domain of discontinuity in a flag manifold. For instance, Borel Anosov subgroups of $\mathrm{SL}(d,\mathbb{R})$ have finite-sided Dirichlet domains for the Hilbert metric on the symmetric space which extends to the space of line-hyperplane flags, and $n$-Anosov subgroups of $\mathrm{Sp}(2n,\mathbb{R})$ have finite-sided Dirichlet-Selberg domains in $\mathrm{SL}(2n,\mathbb{R})/\mathrm{SO}(2n)$ which extend to a domain in projective space bounded by quadrics.

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Colin Davalo, J. Maxwell Riestenberg. 2026-05-11. Dirichlet domains for Anosov subgroups. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06408

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