Structural stability of Kleinian groups (Q1363616)

It is known from work of D. Sullivan (Acta Math. 155, 243-260 (1985; Zbl 0606.30044) that structural stability of a finitely generated torsion-free Kleinian group implies that the action of the group on its limit set is expanding. This means convex cocompactness of the group in question. The author's generalization of this result is given in this Theorem 1: Let \(G\) be a finitely generated nonsolvable group (possible with torsion) and let \(\rho: G\to \text{PSL} (2,\mathbb{C})\) be a faithful representation. Then \(\rho\) is structurally stable if and only if either \(\rho\) is rigid or \(\rho(G)\) is a geometrically finite Kleinian group all of whose cusps are rigid. There is a parallel result on quasiconformal stability given in Theorem 2: Quasiconformal stability of a Kleinian group is equivalent to its geometric finiteness.