Big deformations near infinity (Q1419631)

Let \(G\) be a Fuchsian group. It is said that \(G\) has the Ruelle property if whenever \(\{G_{t}\}\) is an analytic family of quasiconformal deformations of \(G\) then dim\((\Lambda (G_{t}))\) is a real analytic function of \(t\), where dim\((\Lambda )\) denotes the Hausdorff dimension of its limit set. Every cocompact Fuchsian group has this property but there are examples of infinitely generated convergence type Fuchsian groups for which it fails. In the paper under review the author gives geometric conditions on \(R=D/G\), where \(D\) denotes the hyperbolic plane and \(G\) is a torsion free infinitely generated Fuchsian group, which imply that \(G\) has big deformations near infinity, and so new examples in which the Ruelle property fails are provided. Examples of infinitely generated groups which do not have big deformations near infinity are also given.