Local rigidity for hyperbolic groups with Sierpi\'nski carpet boundaries

Let $G$ and $\tilde G$ be Kleinian groups whose limit sets $S$ and $\tilde S$, respectively, are homeomorphic to the standard Sierpi\'nski carpet, and such that every complementary component of each of $S$ and $\tilde S$ is a round disc. We assume that the groups $G$ and $\tilde G$ act cocompactly on triples on their respective limit sets. The main theorem of the paper states that any quasiregular map (in a suitably defined sense) from an open connected subset of $S$ to $\tilde S$ is the restriction of a M\"obius transformation that takes $S$ onto $\tilde S$, in particular it has no branching. This theorem applies to the fundamental groups of compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with non-empty totally geodesic boundaries. One consequence of the main theorem is the following result. Assume that $G$ is a torsion-free hyperbolic group whose boundary at infinity \dee_\infty G is a Sierpi\'nski carpet that embeds quasisymmetrically into the standard 2-sphere. Then there exists a group $H$ that contains $G$ as a finite index subgroup and such that any quasisymmetric map $f$ between open connected subsets of \dee_\infty G is the restriction of the induced boundary map of an element $h\in H$.Comment: 14 page

Maps conjugating holomorphic maps in C^n

If f is a bijection from C^n onto a complex manifold M, which conjugates every holomorphic map in C^n to an endomorphism in M, then we prove that f is necessarily biholomorphic or antibiholomorphic. This extends a result of A. Hinkkanen to higher dimensions. As a corollary, we prove that if there is an epimorphism from the semigroup of all holomorphic endomorphisms of C^n to the semigroup of holomorphic endomorphisms in M, or an epimorphism in the opposite direction for a doubly-transitive M, then it is given by conjugation by some biholomorphic or antibiholomorphic map. We show also that there are two unbounded domains in C^n with isomorphic endomorphism semigroups but which are neither biholomorphically nor antibiholomorphically equivalent.Comment: 10 page