Geodesic planes in geometrically finite manifolds

Osama Khalil

doi:10.3934/dcds.2019037

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2019, Volume 39, Issue 2: 881-903. Doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019037

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Geodesic planes in geometrically finite manifolds

Osama Khalil

Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University, 231 W 18^th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA

Received: December 31, 2017

Revised: June 30, 2018

Published: January 2019

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We study the problem of rigidity of closures of totally geodesic plane immersions in geometrically finite manifolds containing rank 1 cusps. We show that the key notion of K-thick recurrence of horocycles fails generically in this setting. This property played a key role in the recent breakthroughs of McMullen, Mohammadi and Oh. Nonetheless, in the setting of geometrically finite groups whose limit sets are circle packings, we derive 2 density criteria for non-closed geodesic plane immersions, and show that closed immersions give rise to surfaces with finitely generated fundamental groups. We also obtain results on the existence and isolation of proper closed immersions of elementary surfaces.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: 22F30, 37A17, 51M10.

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Figure 1. Apollonian circle packing (solid). Inversions through dual circles (dashed) generate a geometrically finite group containing rank-$1$ parabolic subgroups

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Figure 2. Proof of Lemma 3.2

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