© 2018, Mathematical Sciences Publishers. All Rights reserved. We give a geometric interpretation of the maximal Satake compactification of symmetric spaces X=G/K of noncompact type, showing that it arises by attaching the horofunction boundary for a suitable G-invariant Finsler metric on X. As an application, we establish the existence of natural bordifications, as orbifolds-with-corners, of locally symmetric spaces X/Γ for arbitrary discrete subgroups Γ

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In this note we give an overview of some of our recent work on Anosov representations of discrete groups into higher rank semisimple Lie groups.

© 2018, Mathematical Sciences Publishers. All rights reserved. For noncompact semisimple Lie groups G with finite center, we study the dynamics of the actions of their discrete subgroups Γ < G on the associated partial flag manifolds G/P. Our study is based on the observation, already made in the deep work of Benoist, that they exhibit also in higher rank a certain form of convergence-type dynamics. We identify geometrically domains of proper discontinuity in all partial flag manifolds. Under certain dynamical assumptions equivalent to the Anosov subgroup condition, we establish the cocompactness of the T-action on various domains of proper discontinuity, in particular on domains in the full flag manifold G/B. In the regular case (eg of B-Anosov subgroups), we prove the nonemptiness of such domains if G has (locally) at least one noncompact simple factor not of the type A1, B2or G2by showing the nonexistence of certain ball packings of the visual boundary.

© 2017, Springer International Publishing AG. We study infinite covolume discrete subgroups of higher rank semisimple Lie groups, motivated by understanding basic properties of Anosov subgroups from various viewpoints (geometric, coarse geometric and dynamical). The class of Anosov subgroups constitutes a natural generalization of convex cocompact subgroups of rank one Lie groups to higher rank. Our main goal is to give several new equivalent characterizations for this important class of discrete subgroups. Our characterizations capture “rank one behavior” of Anosov subgroups and are direct generalizations of rank one equivalents to convex cocompactness. Along the way, we considerably simplify the original definition, avoiding the geodesic flow. We also show that the Anosov condition can be relaxed further by requiring only non-uniform unbounded expansion along the (quasi)geodesics in the group.