Degenerations of the hyperbolic space

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-88-05607-4zbMath0652.57009OpenAlexW1992104860MaRDI QIDQ1107169

Mladen Bestvina

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1215/s0012-7094-88-05607-4

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compactificationTeichmüller spaceconvergence of compact metric spacesisometric actions on \({\mathbb{R}}\)-treesspace of discrete faithful representations of a group in the group of isometries of hyperbolic n-space

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