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Eduardo Reyes

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arXiv2026

A geometric correspondence for reparameterizations of geodesic flows

For any non-elementary, torsion-free hyperbolic group, we provide a correspondence between the left-invariant Gromov-hyperbolic metrics on the group that are quasi-isometric to a word metric, and continuous reparameterizations of the associated Mineyev's flow space. From this correspondence, we produce the first examples of continuous reparameterizations of geodesic flows on negatively curved manifolds with all periodic orbits having integer lengths. For surface and free groups, this also yields isometric actions on Gromov-hyperbolic spaces on which loxodromic elements are precisely the non-simple elements. Key ingredients in our proof are an analysis of the geometry of Mineyev's flow space (such as the metric-Anosov property recently proven by Dilsavor), and the density of Green metrics in the moduli space of (symmetric) metrics on the group.

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arXiv2026

Regularity of Manhattan manifolds and exact dimensionality for relatively Anosov groups

We establish several results about Patterson--Sullivan measures for relatively Anosov groups. First, we prove that these measures are exact dimensional with respect to visual metrics induced by Gromov models in the Groves--Manning quasi-isometry class. Under the additional assumption that the group is relatively Morse, we show that the associated scalar Cartan metric is Gromov hyperbolic and that the corresponding boundary premetric is a visual metric to which the exact-dimensionality theorem applies. Second, we prove that their Manhattan manifolds are $C^1$-regular, from which we deduce that the growth indicator is $C^1$-regular and strictly concave on the interior of the limit cone. This extends the case of Anosov representations by Kim--Oh--Wang. Our methods are dynamical, and we exploit the fact due to Kim--Oh and Blayac--Canary--Zhu--Zimmer that Bowen--Margulis--Sullivan measures for relatively Anosov groups are finite and mixing.

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arXiv2026

Stably tangential strict hyperbolization

We show that the Charney--Davis strict hyperbolization procedure can preserve stable tangent bundles, answering a question of Charney and Davis. The key input is the construction of many hyperbolizing pieces, obtained using separability properties of hyperbolic cubulable groups. Moreover, these pieces may be chosen so that every face is connected, answering a question of Belegradek. We then apply this construction to suitable cubulations of flat manifolds to produce infinitely many commensurability classes of closed hyperbolic manifolds, both arithmetic and non-arithmetic, with diverse topological features. In particular, we obtain the first examples in which all the Stiefel--Whitney classes are non-trivial below the top degree, and the first orientable examples with non-trivial Pontryagin classes. We also construct infinite towers of finite covers of closed hyperbolic manifolds in which no cover is stably parallelizable or spin. Our methods further yield new pairs of exotic negatively curved Riemannian manifolds.

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arXiv2024

The joint translation spectrum and Manhattan manifolds

We define and study geometric versions of the Benoist limit cone and matrix joint spectrum, which we call the translation cone and the joint translation spectrum, respectively. These new notions allow us to generalize the study of embeddings into products of rank-one simple Lie groups and to compare group actions on different metric spaces, quasi-morphisms, Anosov representations and many other natural objects of study. We identify the joint translation spectrum with the image of the gradient function of a corresponding Manhattan manifold: a higher dimensional version of the well known and studied Manhattan curve. As a consequence we deduce many properties of the spectrum. For example we show that it is given by the closure of the set of all possible drift vectors associated to finitely supported, symmetric, admissible random walks on the associated group.

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arXiv2024

Approximate marked length spectrum rigidity in coarse geometry

We compare the marked length spectra of isometric actions of groups with non-positively curved features. Inspired by the recent works of Butt we study approximate versions of marked length spectrum rigidity. We show that for pairs of metrics, the supremum of the quotient of their marked length spectra is approximately determined by their marked length spectra restricted to an appropriate finite set of conjugacy classes. Applying this to fundamental groups of closed negatively curved Riemannian manifolds allows us to refine Butt's result. Our results however apply in greater generality and do not require the acting group to be hyperbolic. For example we are able to compare the marked length spectra associated to mapping class groups acting on their Cayley graphs or on the curve graph.

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arXiv2024

Marked length spectrum rigidity from rigidity on subsets

We introduce a new method for studying length spectrum rigidity problems based on a combination of ideas from dynamical systems and geometric group theory. This allows us to compare the marked length spectrum of metrics and distance-like functions coming from various geometric origins. Using our new perspective, we provide concise proofs of well-known length spectrum rigidity results and are able to extend classical results to a variety of new settings. Our methods rely on studying Manhattan curves and a coarse geometric analogue of Teichmüller space equipped with a symmetrized version of the Thurston metric.

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arXiv2024

Manhattan geodesics and the boundary of the space of metric structures on hyperbolic groups

For any non-elementary hyperbolic group $Γ$, we find an outer automorphism invariant geodesic bicombing for the space of metric structures on $Γ$ equipped with a symmetrized version of the Thurston metric on Techimüller space. We construct and study a boundary for this space and show that it contains many well-known pseudo metrics including those coming from actions on $\text{CAT}(0)$ cube complexes, real trees and coned-off Cayley graphs. As corollaries we deduce length spectrum rigidity results, regularity results for Manhattan curves, optimal growth rate results for Anosov representations and results regarding continuous extensions of translation distance functions to the space of geodesic currents. Using our results for geodesic currents we settle a conjecture of Bonahon in the negative.

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arXiv2024

Approximating hyperbolic lattices by cubulations

We show that an isometric action of a torsion-free uniform lattice $Γ$ on hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^n$ can be metrically approximated by geometric actions of $Γ$ on $\mathrm{CAT}(0)$ cube complexes, provided that either $n$ is at most three, or the lattice is arithmetic of simplest type. This solves a conjecture of Futer and Wise. Our main tool is the study of a space of co-geodesic currents, consisting of invariant Radon measures supported on codimension-1 hyperspheres in the Gromov boundary of $\mathbb{H}^n$. By pairing co-geodesic currents and geodesic currents via an intersection number, we show that asymptotic convergence of geometric actions can be deduced from the convergence of their dual co-geodesic currents. For surface groups, our methods also imply approximation by cubulations for actions induced by non-positively curved Riemannian surfaces with singularities, Hitchin and maximal representations, and quasiFuchsian representations.

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arXiv2023

Rigidity phenomena and the statistical properties of group actions on $\text{CAT}(0)$ cube complexes

We compare the marked length spectra of some pairs of proper and cocompact cubical actions of a non-virtually cyclic group on $\text{CAT}(0)$ cube complexes. The cubulations are required to be virtually co-special, have the same sets of convex-cocompact subgroups, and admit a contracting element. There are many groups for which these conditions are always fulfilled for any pair of cubulations, including non-elementary cubulable hyperbolic groups, many cubulable relatively hyperbolic groups, and many right-angled Artin and Coxeter groups. For these pairs of cubulations, we study the Manhattan curve associated to their combinatorial metrics. We prove that this curve is analytic and convex, and a straight line if and only if the marked length spectra are homothetic. The same result holds if we consider invariant combinatorial metrics in which the lengths of the edges are not necessarily one. In addition, for their standard combinatorial metrics, we prove a large deviation theorem with shrinking intervals for their marked length spectra. We deduce the same result for pairs of word metrics on hyperbolic groups. The main tool is the construction of a finite-state automaton that simultaneously encodes the marked length spectra of both cubulations in a coherent way, in analogy with results about (bi)combable functions on hyperbolic groups by Calegari and Fujiwara. The existence of this automaton allows us to apply the machinery of thermodynamic formalism for suspension flows over subshifts of finite type, from which we deduce our results.

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