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Title: An introduction to pressure metrics for higher Teichmüller spaces
We discuss how one uses the thermodynamic formalism to produce metrics on higher Teichmüller spaces. Our higher Teichmüller spaces will be spaces of Anosov representations of a word-hyperbolic group into a semi-simple Lie group. We begin by discussing our construction in the classical setting of the Teichmüller space of a closed orientable surface of genus at least 2, then we explain the construction for Hitchin components and finally we treat the general case. This paper surveys results of Bridgeman, Canary, Labourie and Sambarino, The pressure metric for Anosov representations , and discusses questions and open problems which arise.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1564410
PAR ID:
10340738
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
Volume:
38
Issue:
6
ISSN:
0143-3857
Page Range / eLocation ID:
2001 to 2035
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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