Examples of nonproper affine actions

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1029004598MaRDI QIDQ1803916zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Todd A. Drumm

Publication date 29 June 1993

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1307/mmj/1029004598

zbMATH Keywords

free subgroups of the affine group that act properly discontinuously on \(\mathbb{R}^ 3\)group of motions of Lorentz 3-space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Noncompact Lie groups of transformations (57S20) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

Review text

This paper is concerned with free subgroups of the affine group that act properly discontinuously on \(\mathbb{R}^ 3\). These subgroups are conjugate to free subgroups of \(H\), the group of motions of Lorentz 3-space. The author gives a condition on a free subgroup of \(H\) which implies that the action is not properly discontinuous. He then constructs a free subgroup which does not satisfy this condition and which also does not act properly discontinuously.

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