# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

January  2011, 5(1): 49-69. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2011.5.49

## Boundary unitary representations-irreducibility and rigidity

 1 Mathematics Department, The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, 32000, Israel 2 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Lehman College, CUNY, 2500 Johnson Avenue Bronx, NY 10463, United States

Received  January 2010 Revised  December 2010 Published  April 2011

Let $M$ be compact negatively curved manifold, $\Gamma =\pi_1(M)$ and $M$ be its universal cover. Denote by $B =\partial M$ the geodesic boundary of $M$ and by $\nu$ the Patterson-Sullivan measure on $X$. In this note we prove that the associated unitary representation of $\Gamma$ on $L^2(B,\nu)$ is irreducible. We also establish a new rigidity phenomenon: we show that some of the geometry of $M$, namely its marked length spectrum, is reflected in this $L^2$-representations.
Citation: Uri Bader, Roman Muchnik. Boundary unitary representations-irreducibility and rigidity. Journal of Modern Dynamics, 2011, 5 (1) : 49-69. doi: 10.3934/jmd.2011.5.49
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