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Patterson-Sullivan theory for coarse cocycles

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In this paper we develop a theory of Patterson--Sullivan measures associated to coarse cocycles of convergence groups. This framework includes Patterson-Sullivan measures associated to the Busemann cocycle on the geodesic boundary of a Gromov hyperbolic metric spaces and Patterson-Sullivan measures on flag manifolds associated to Anosov (or more general transverse) subgroups of semisimple Lie groups, as well as more examples. Under some natural geometric assumptions on the coarse cocycle, we prove existence, uniqueness, and ergodicity results.

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Pierre-Louis Blayac, Richard Canary, Feng Zhu, Andrew Zimmer. 2024-08-05. Patterson-Sullivan theory for coarse cocycles. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09713

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