Concentration points for Fuchsian groups

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(99)90064-0MaRDI QIDQ1578896zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sungbok Hong, Darryl McCullough

Publication date 31 January 2001

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9806122

zbMATH Keywords

concentration pointsconical limit pointsFuchsian groupsKleinian groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: A limit point p of a discrete group of Mobius transformations acting on S^n is called a concentration point if for any sufficiently small connected open neighborhood U of p, the set of translates of U contains a local basis for the topology of S^n at p. For the case of Fuchsian groups (n = 1), every concentration point is a conical limit point, but even for finitely generated groups not every conical limit point is a concentration point. A slightly weaker concentration condition is given which is satisfied if and only if p is a conical limit point, but not all conical limit points satisfy it. Examples are given that clarify the relations between various concentration conditions.

Review text

The local dynamics at a limit point of a Fuchsian or Kleinian group (a discrete group of Möbius transformations acting on the Poincaré disk or its boundary, the sphere \(S^n\) ``at infinity) can be complicated, and various types of limit points have been studied in the literature, among them the conical limit points. The authors call a limit point \(p\in S^n\) a concentration point if, for any sufficiently small connected open neighbourhood \(U\) of \(p\), the set of translates of \(U\) under the group action contains a local basis for the topology of \(S^n\) at \(p\). Various variants of such a definition are presented and studied in the paper, comparing them also with the notion of conical limit point (i.e. there is a sequence of translates of the origin of the Poincaré disk that converge to \(p\) and lie within a bounded hyperbolic distance of a geodesic ray ending at \(p\)). It is shown that for the case of Fuchsian groups (the case \(n=1\)) every concentration point is a conical limit point but that the converse does not hold, in general. Examples are given which clarify the relations between various concentration conditions, exhibiting also a different behaviour for finitely generated and infinitely generated Fuchsian groups with respect to limit points.

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