On denseness of horospheres in higher rank homogeneous spaces

Abstract

Let $ G $ be a connected, semisimple real algebraic group and $Γ< G$ be a Zariski dense discrete subgroup. Let $N$ denote a maximal horospherical subgroup of $G$, and $P=MAN$ the minimal parabolic subgroup which is the normalizer of $N$. Let $\mathcal{E}$ denote the unique $P$-minimal subset of $Γ\backslash G$ and let $\mathcal{E}_0$ be a $P^\circ$-minimal subset. We consider a notion of a horospherical limit point in the Furstenberg boundary $ G/P $ and show that the following are equivalent for any $[g]\in \mathcal{E}_0$: (1) $gP\in G/P$ is a horospherical limit point; (2) $[g]NM$ is dense in $\mathcal{E}$; (3) $[g]N$ is dense in $\mathcal{E}_0$. The equivalence of (1) and (2) is due to Dal'bo in the rank one case. We also observe that unlike convex cocompact groups of rank one Lie groups, the $NM$-minimality of $\mathcal{E}$ does not hold in a general Anosov homogeneous space.

Theorems & Definitions (41)

• Definition 1.1
• Theorem 1.3
• Theorem 1.5
• Remark 1.6
• Definition 1.7
• Theorem 1.8
• Proposition 1.9
• Corollary 1.10
• Lemma 2.1
• proof