Kleinian groups; Eichler cohomology and the complex theory (Q4379880)

The author exposits the complex analytic theory of finitely generated Kleinian groups with applications to the geometric and algebraic structures on associated Riemann surfaces. The principal analytic objects of study are the Banach spaces of holomorphic automorphic forms, bounded and unbounded, for a group. These are compared via the Petersson scalar product and are connected with meromorphic functions via the Poincaré theta operator. The dimension of these spaces is predicted by the Riemann-Roch theorem. These spaces are analyzed with the help of Eichler cohomology, which in the hands of Bers and Ahlfors (clever constructions of cohomology classes, etc.) leads to powerful finiteness theorems (the Ahlfors finiteness theorem and the Bers area theorem). The author discusses methods and difficulty of constructing elements of the Banach spaces and cohomology groups and invariant meromorphic functions on the associated Riemann surfaces. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0883.00018].