The study reveals pairs in the isometry group of quaternionic hyperbolic space, indicating Haar measure zero exists for such pairs.
Let (n,1) denote the isometry group of the quaternionic hyperbolic space Hⁿ. A pair (g₁,g₂) (n,1) is strongly doubly reversible if (g₁,g₂) and (g₁⁻¹,g₂⁻¹) are simultaneously conjugate in (n,1) by an involution. Equivalently, there exist involutions i₁,i₂,i₃ ∈ (n,1) such that g₁ = i₁ i₂, g₂ = i₁ i₃. We prove that the set of such pairs has Haar measure zero in (n,1) × (n,1). The same result also holds for (n) × (n) for n≥ 2. In the special case $n=1$, we show that every pair of elements in (1) is strongly doubly reversible. Applying this result, we give a shorter proof of a theorem of Basmajian and Maskit showing that every pair of elements in SO(4) is strongly doubly reversible. Furthermore, we derive the necessary conditions for a pair of hyperbolic elements in (1,1) to be strongly doubly reversible and provide a quantitative characterization of such pairs.
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