The classification of punctured-torus groups

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DOI10.2307/120976zbMATH Open0939.30034arXivmath/9807001OpenAlexW2103581044MaRDI QIDQ1293370FDOQ1293370

Yair N. Minsky

Publication date: 4 July 2000

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

Abstract: Thurston's ending lamination conjecture proposes that a finitely generated Kleinian group is uniquely determined (up to isometry) by the topology of its quotient and a list of invariants that describe the asymptotic geometry of its ends. We present a proof of this conjecture for punctured-torus groups. These are free two-generator Kleinian groups with parabolic commutator, which should be thought of as representations of the fundamental group of a punctured torus. As a consequence we verify the conjectural topological description of the deformation space of punctured-torus groups (including Bers' conjecture that the quasi-Fuchsian groups are dense in this space) and prove a rigidity theorem: two punctured-torus groups are quasi-conformally conjugate if and only if they are topologically conjugate.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9807001




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