Discontinuous motion groups of different degrees in metric spaces (Q1347008)

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    30 March 1995
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    This is an exhaustive survey-style analysis of the equivalencies, dependencies and independencies between 16 conditions for discontinuous groups of isometries of two- and three-dimensional Euclidean space. The conditions are variations on the local finiteness condition for orbits of a group \(\mathbf B\) of isometries of a metric space \(({\mathcal X}, d)\) (the set \(S(X,P,r) := \{\tau(P) \mid d(\tau(P), X) < r\), \(\tau \in {\mathbf B}\}\) is finite, for all \(X\), \(P\) in \(\mathcal X\) and \(r > 0\)) and the condition of discreteness of points in their orbit (for all \(P \in {\mathcal X}\), \(S(P, P, r)\) is a singleton for sufficiently small \(r > 0\)).
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    survey
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    equivalence
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    dependence
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    independence
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    discontinuous groups
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    isometries
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    Euclidean space
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    local finiteness
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    metric space
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