05/18: Or Landesberg


Horospherically invariant measures on geometrically infinite quotients

Abstract: We consider a locally finite (Radon) measure on \mathrm{SO}^+(d,1)/\Gamma invariant under a horospherical subgroup of \mathrm{SO}^+(d,1)/\Gamma where \Gamma is a discrete, but not necessarily geometrically finite, subgroup. We show that whenever the measure does not admit any additional invariance properties then it must be supported on a set of points with geometrically degenerate trajectories under the corresponding contracting 1-parameter diagonalizable flow (geodesic flow). We deduce measure classification results. One such result in the context of finitely generated Kleinian groups in \mathrm{PSL}(2, \mathbb{C}) will be highlighted. Most of the talk will be based on joint work with Elon Lindenstrauss.