On spherical CR uniformization of 3-manifolds

Abstract

We consider the discrete representations of 3-manifold groups into $PU(2,1)$ that appear in the Falbel-Koseleff-Rouillier census, such that the peripheral subgroups have cyclic unipotent holonomy. We show that two of these representations have conjugate images, even though they represent different 3-manifold groups. This illustrates the fact that a discrete representation $\pi_1(M)\rightarrow PU(2,1)$ with cyclic unipotent boundary holonomy is not in general the holonomy of a spherical CR uniformization of $M$.