Differentiability and rigidity of Möbius groups (Q1058017)

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Differentiability and rigidity of Möbius groups
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    Differentiability and rigidity of Möbius groups (English)
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    Let G and H be groups of Möbius transformations of \(\bar R^ n\), let \(j: G\to H\) be a homomorphism and let \(A\subset \bar R^ n\) be a G- invariant set. Suppose that \(f: A\to \bar R^ n\) is a map such that \(fg(y)=j(g)f(y)\) for \(y\in A\) and \(g\in G\) and that f is differentiable with a non-singular derivative at a radial point x of G (x is also called a conical limit point or a non-tangential limit point). It is shown that f is, up to compositions with Möbius transformations, the restriction of an affine map, apart from a rather special set of circumstances and even then with at most one exceptional point. Furthermore, f is often a Möbius transformation, for instance if \(A=\bar R^ n\) and no \(z\in \bar R^ n\) is fixed by every \(g\in G.\) The idea is the following. Suppose that \(g_ i(z)\) radially approach x. Here \(g_ i\in G\) and z is a point in the hyperbolic space whose boundary is \(\bar R^ n\). Looking at x from the points \(g_ i(z)\), f begins to look more and more like an affine map as \(i\to \infty\). - Similar theorems consider differentiability at a limit point and the matrix dilatation at a radial or a limit point. The matrix dilatation is the generalization of the complex dilatation for \(n\geq 2\). Indeed, if f is a quasiconformal homeomorphism of \(\bar R^ n\) and if the matrix dilatation of f is approximately continuous at a radial point, or continuous at a limit point, then the above conclusions hold. These theorems have relevance to Mostow's rigidity theorem to which they allow to give new proofs.
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    groups of Möbius transformations
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    matrix dilatation
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    quasiconformal homeomorphism
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    Mostow's rigidity theorem
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