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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828511803321

Titolo

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

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.