Valuations, trees, and degenerations of hyperbolic structures. I

DOI10.2307/1971082zbMath0583.57005OpenAlexW2315813414MaRDI QIDQ1069178

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1971082

zbMATH Keywords

affine algebraic set varieties of group representations actions on generalized trees compactification of Teichmüller space compactifications of real and complex algebraic varieties hyperbolic structures on surfaces representations of a dicrete group in $SL_ 2({\mathbb{C}})$valuations of the coordinate ring

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C05) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Valuations and their generalizations for commutative rings (13A18) Classification theory of Riemann surfaces (30F20) Compactification of analytic spaces (32J05) Abelian varieties and schemes (14K99)

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