Anosov combination conjecture

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Let GG be the ambient group, let PτmodP_{{\tau_{\mathrm{mod}}}} be the parabolic subgroup associated with the face type τmod\tau_{\mathrm{mod}}, and let A1,…,An⊂Flag(τmod)A_1,\ldots,A_n\subset \mathrm{Flag}\left(\tau_{\mathrm{mod}}\right) be nonempty compact subsets. Assume that any two distinct elements of

A:=⋃i=1nAiA:=\bigcup_{i=1}^n A_i

are antipodal. For each ii, let Γi\Gamma_i be a subgroup of GG.

Anosov combination conjecture. If each Γi\Gamma_i is PτmodP_{{\tau_{\mathrm{mod}}}}-Anosov and, for every i=1,…,ni=1,\ldots,n and every γ∈Γi−{1}\gamma\in\Gamma_i-\{1\},

γ(A−Ai)⊂int⁡(Ai),\gamma\left(A-A_i\right)\subset \operatorname{int}\left(A_i\right),

then the subgroup Γ\Gamma of GG generated by Γ1,…,Γn\Gamma_1,\ldots,\Gamma_n is PτmodP_{{\tau_{\mathrm{mod}}}}-Anosov.

This is a proposed combination theorem for Anosov subgroups in the spirit of classical Klein--Maskit combination theorems and quantitative ping-pong arguments. Unlike the preceding theorem in the paper, it is stated without passing to finite-index subgroups and uses antipodal compact subsets of the flag variety as the dynamical domains. The supplied text gives no resolution, so the conjecture is recorded as open.

References

Primary source

Subhadip Dey, Michael Kapovich and Bernhard Leeb, “A combination theorem for Anosov subgroups”, arXiv:1805.07374 (2018).

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