The discrete elementary groups (Q1313693)

The author studies the discrete elementary subgroups of the Möbius group \(M(\widehat {R}^ n)\) on \(\widehat{R}^ n\). These are the discrete subgroups of \(M(\widehat {R}^ n)\) with a fixed point in \(M(\widehat {R}^ n)\). The author proves several results to establish the main result of this work: A discrete elementary subgroup of \(M(\widehat {R}^ n)\) is either a group extension of \(\mathbb{Z}\) by a finite subgroup of \(\text{SO}(n)\) or an extension of a finite group by a free abelian group of rank \(k \leq n\). In the proofs, he uses the geometry on \(\widehat {R}^ n\), and some notions such as Bieberbach groups, torsion- freeness and characteristic subgroups from algebra.