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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437864503321

Autore

Cano Angel

Titolo

Complex Kleinian groups / / Angel Cano, Juan Pablo Navarrete, Jose Seade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

1-283-90968-5

3-0348-0481-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Progress in mathematics ; ; v. 303

Altri autori (Persone)

NavarreteJuan Pablo

SeadeJose

Disciplina

512.2

Soggetti

Kleinian groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

  Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A glance of the classical theory -- 2 Complex hyperbolic geometry -- 3 Complex Kleinian groups -- 4 Geometry and dynamics of automorphisms of P2C -- 5 Kleinian groups with a control group -- 6 The limit set in dimension two -- 7 On the dynamics of discrete subgroups of PU(n,1) -- 8 Projective orbifolds and dynamics in dimension two -- 9 Complex Schottky groups -- 10 Kleinian groups and twistor theory -- Bibliography -- Index.  .

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph lays down the foundations of the theory of complex Kleinian groups, a “newborn” area of mathematics whose origin can be traced back to the work of Riemann, Poincaré, Picard and many others. Kleinian groups are, classically, discrete groups of conformal automorphisms of the Riemann sphere, and these can themselves be regarded as groups of holomorphic automorphisms of the complex projective line CP1. When we go into higher dimensions, there is a dichotomy: Should we look at conformal automorphisms of the n-sphere? or should we look at holomorphic automorphisms of higher dimensional complex projective spaces? These two theories differ in higher dimensions. In the first case we are talking about groups of isometries of real hyperbolic spaces, an area of mathematics with a long-standing tradition; in the second, about an area of mathematics



that is still in its infancy, and this is the focus of study in this monograph. It brings together several important areas of mathematics, e.g. classical Kleinian group actions, complex hyperbolic geometry, crystallographic groups and the uniformization problem for complex manifolds.