Geometry of group representations : proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held July 5-11, 1987 with support from the National Science Foundation / / William M. Goldman and Andy R. Magid, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788786703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1988]; ©1988
• ISBN: 0-8218-7663-5; 0-8218-5412-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 74 , 0271-4132
• Disciplina: 512/.22
• Soggetti: Representations of groups; Geometry, Differential
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Participants -- List of Talks -- Kleinian Groups " Geometrically Finite and Geometrically Perverse -- The Real Spectrum Compactification of Teichmuller Space -- A Semi-Algebraic Brower Fixed Point Theorem for Real Affine Space -- The Tree of a Non-Archimedean Hyperbolic Plane -- Gauge Theory and Representations of Kahler Groups -- The Diophantine Nature of Some Constructions at Infinity -- Complex Representations and One-Relator Products of Cyclics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Freiheitssatz -- 3. The Tits Alternative -- 4. Normal Torsion-Free Subgroups -- 5. Amalgam Decompositions -- 6. Non-Proper Power Relators -- Sometimes H1 is H2 and Discrete Groups Deform -- Geometric Structures on Manifolds and Varieties of Representations -- Topological Rigidity of Developing Maps with Applications to Conformally Flat Structures -- Modular Groups and Representation Spaces -- Local Structures of Representation Varieties: Examples -- Deformations of Representations of Finitely Generated Groups -- Connected Components of Representation Varieties -- A Characterization of Orbit Closure -- Calculus on Moduli Spaces -- ; Affine Homogeneous Spaces -- Deformations and Discrete Subgroups of Loop Groups -- Afterword.