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Bounded cohomology and totally real subspaces in complex hyperbolic geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2011

MARC BURGER  and
ALESSANDRA IOZZI
MARC BURGER
Affiliation:
Department Mathematik, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland (email: burger@math.ethz.ch, iozzi@math.ethz.ch)
ALESSANDRA IOZZI
Affiliation:
Department Mathematik, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland (email: burger@math.ethz.ch, iozzi@math.ethz.ch)
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Abstract

We characterize representations of finitely generated discrete groups into (the connected component of) the isometry group of a complex hyperbolic space via the pullback of the bounded Kähler class.

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Research Article
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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 32 , Issue 2: Daniel J. Rudolph – in Memoriam , April 2012 , pp. 467 - 478
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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