The lattice-preservation conjecture for convex co-compact complex hyperbolic representations

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Let HCm\mathbb{H}^m_{\mathbb{C}} and HCM\mathbb{H}^M_{\mathbb{C}} be complex hyperbolic spaces, and let Γ<Isom(HCm)\Gamma < \mathsf{Isom}(\mathbb{H}^m_{\mathbb{C}}) be a uniform lattice. Let ρ:ΓIsom(HCM)\rho: \Gamma \rightarrow \mathsf{Isom}(\mathbb{H}^M_{\mathbb{C}}) be a convex co-compact representation. Lattice-preservation conjecture. If 2mM2 \leq m \leq M, then the image of ρ\rho preserves a totally geodesic copy of HCm\mathbb{H}^m_{\mathbb{C}} in HCM\mathbb{H}^M_{\mathbb{C}}. This conjecture is known when M2m1M \leq 2m-1, by work of Cao--Mok and Yue, but remains open in general.

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Kyle Huang, Jinwoo Park, Aleksander Skenderi, Jaan Amla Srimurthy, Rou Wen and Andrew Zimmer, “Rigidity of proper holomorphic maps between balls with Hölder boundary regularity”, arXiv:2602.05795 (2026).

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