Bubbling complex projective structures with quasi-Fuchsian holonomy

For a given quasi-Fuchsian representation [Formula: see text] of the fundamental group of a closed surface [Formula: see text] of genus [Formula: see text], we prove that a generic branched complex projective structure on [Formula: see text] with holonomy [Formula: see text] and two branch points can be obtained from some unbranched structure on [Formula: see text] with the same holonomy by bubbling, i.e. a suitable connected sum with a copy of [Formula: see text].

PROJECTIVE STRUCTURES AND -CONNECTIONS

We extend T. Y. Thomas’s approach to projective structures, over the complex analytic category, by involving the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}$-connections. This way, a better control of projective flatness is obtained and, consequently, we have, for example, the following application: if the twistor space of a quaternionic manifold $P$ is endowed with a complex projective structure then $P$ can be locally identified, through quaternionic diffeomorphisms, with the quaternionic projective space.

Analytic continuation of holonomy germs of Riccati foliations along Brownian paths

Consider a Riccati foliation whose monodromy representation is non-elementary and parabolic and consider a non-invariant section of the fibration whose associated developing map is onto. We prove that any holonomy germ from any non-invariant fibre to the section can be analytically continued along a generic Brownian path. To prove this theorem, we prove a dual result about complex projective structures. Let $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F4}$ be a hyperbolic Riemann surface of finite type endowed with a branched complex projective structure: such a structure gives rise to a non-constant holomorphic map ${\mathcal{D}}:\tilde{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F4}}\rightarrow \mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^{1}$, from the universal cover of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F4}$ to the Riemann sphere $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^{1}$, which is $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}$-equivariant for a morphism $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}:\unicode[STIX]{x1D70B}_{1}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F4})\rightarrow \mathit{PSL}(2,\mathbb{C})$. The dual result is the following. If the monodromy representation $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}$ is parabolic and non-elementary and if ${\mathcal{D}}$ is onto, then, for almost every Brownian path $\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}$ in $\tilde{\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F4}}$, ${\mathcal{D}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}(t))$ does not have limit when $t$ goes to $\infty$. If, moreover, the projective structure is of parabolic type, we also prove that, although ${\mathcal{D}}(\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}(t))$ does not converge, it converges in the Cesàro sense.