Valuations, trees, and degenerations of hyperbolic structures. I

DOI10.2307/1971082zbMath0583.57005MaRDI 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

57M99: General low-dimensional topology

20C05: Group rings of finite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects)

32G15: Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables)

13A18: Valuations and their generalizations for commutative rings

30F20: Classification theory of Riemann surfaces

32J05: Compactification of analytic spaces

14K99: Abelian varieties and schemes

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