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The conformal measures of a normal subgroup of a cocompact Fuchsian group

Part of: Dynamical systems with hyperbolic behavior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2020

OFER SHWARTZ
OFER SHWARTZ*
Affiliation:
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (e-mail: ofer12@yahoo.com)
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In this paper we study the conformal measures of a normal subgroup of a cocompact Fuchsian group. In particular, we relate the extremal conformal measures to the eigenmeasures of a suitable Ruelle operator. Using Ancona’s theorem, adapted to the Ruelle operator setting, we show that if the group of deck transformations G is hyperbolic then the extremal conformal measures and the hyperbolic boundary of G coincide. We then interpret these results in terms of the asymptotic behavior of cutting sequences of geodesics on a regular cover of a compact hyperbolic surface.

Keywords

conformal measuresregular coversFuchsian groupsRuelle operatorMartin boundary

MSC classification

Primary: 37D40: Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.)

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 41 , Issue 9 , September 2021 , pp. 2845 - 2878
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