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Local rigidity for hyperbolic groups with Sierpiński carpet boundaries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 August 2014
Abstract
Let $G$ and
$\tilde{G}$ be Kleinian groups whose limit sets
$S$ and
$\tilde{S}$, respectively, are homeomorphic to the standard Sierpiński carpet, and such that every complementary component of each of
$S$ and
$\tilde{S}$ is a round disc. We assume that the groups
$G$ and
$\tilde{G}$ act cocompactly on triples on their respective limit sets. The main theorem of the paper states that any quasiregular map (in a suitably defined sense) from an open connected subset of
$S$ to
$\tilde{S}$ is the restriction of a Möbius transformation that takes
$S$ onto
$\tilde{S}$, in particular it has no branching. This theorem applies to the fundamental groups of compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with non-empty totally geodesic boundaries. One consequence of the main theorem is the following result. Assume that
$G$ is a torsion-free hyperbolic group whose boundary at infinity
$\partial _{\infty }G$ is a Sierpiński carpet that embeds quasisymmetrically into the standard 2-sphere. Then there exists a group
$H$ that contains
$G$ as a finite index subgroup and such that any quasisymmetric map
$f$ between open connected subsets of
$\partial _{\infty }G$ is the restriction of the induced boundary map of an element
$h\in H$.
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