Constructing equivariant maps for representations

S. Francaviglia

Published 2004-05-03, updated 2007-11-14Version 2

We show that if G is a discrete subgroup of the group of the isometries of the hyperbolic k-space H^k, and if R is a representation of G into the group of the isometries of H^n, then any R-equivariant map F from H^k to H^n extends to the boundary in a weak sense in the setting of Borel measures. As a consequence of this fact, we obtain an extension of a result of Besson, Courtois and Gallot about the existence of volume non-increasing, equivariant maps. Moreover, under an additional hypothesis, we show that the weak extension we obtain is actually a measurable R-equivariant map from the boundary of H^k to the closure of H^n. We use this fact to obtain measurable versions of Cannon-Thurston-type results for equivariant Peano curves.