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On 2-Sphere Bowditch Boundaries Attaining Conformal Dimension
Abstract
Bonk and Kleiner proved that if G is a Gromov hyperbolic group whose boundary ∂∞G is homeomorphic to an Ahlfors Q-regular metric $2$-sphere Z, and the Ahlfors regular conformal dimension of Z is attained and equal to Q, then G acts discretely, cocompactly, and isometrically on ℍ3. In this article, we extend the Bonk-Kleiner theorem to the setting of relatively hyperbolic groups. More precisely, we prove that if (G,ℋ) is a relatively hyperbolic group whose Bowditch boundary is homeomorphic to an Ahlfors Q-regular metric $2$-sphere Z, with the Ahlfors regular conformal dimension of Z attained and equal to Q, then G acts discretely and isometrically on ℍ3, and every subgroup in ℋ is virtually ℤ2.
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BibTeX
@misc{pal20262sphere,
title = {{On 2-Sphere Bowditch Boundaries Attaining Conformal Dimension}},
author = {Abhijit Pal and Rana Sardar},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2608.28346},
eprint = {2608.28346},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28346},
note = {CC BY-SA 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - On 2-Sphere Bowditch Boundaries Attaining Conformal Dimension
AU - Abhijit Pal
AU - Rana Sardar
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/08/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2608.28346
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.28346
AB - Bonk and Kleiner proved that if G is a Gromov hyperbolic group whose boundary ∂_∞G is homeomorphic to an Ahlfors Q-regular metric $2$-sphere Z, and the Ahlfors regular conformal dimension of Z is attained and equal to Q, then G acts discretely, cocompactly, and isometrically on ℍ^3. In this article, we extend the Bonk-Kleiner theorem to the setting of relatively hyperbolic groups. More precisely, we prove that if (G,ℋ) is a relatively hyperbolic group whose Bowditch boundary is homeomorphic to an Ahlfors Q-regular metric $2$-sphere Z, with the Ahlfors regular conformal dimension of Z attained and equal to Q, then G acts discretely and isometrically on ℍ^3, and every subgroup in ℋ is virtually ℤ^2.
ER -