Cano / Navarrete / Seade Complex Kleinian Groups

2013
ISBN: 978-3-0348-0481-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 303, 272 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This monograph lays down the foundations of the theory of complex Kleinian groups, a newly born area of mathematics whose origin traces 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 be regarded too as being groups of holomorphic automorphisms of the complex projective line CP 1 . When going 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 are different 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 case we are talking about an area of mathematics that still is in its childhood, and this is the focus of study in this monograph. This brings together several important areas of mathematics, as for instance classical Kleinian group actions, complex hyperbolic geometry, chrystallographic groups and the uniformization problem for complex manifolds.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cano, Angel

Navarrete, Juan Pablo

Seade, José

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.