Group Actions of the 2-Sphere

DOI10.2307/2374665zbMATH Open0691.57020OpenAlexW1980169741MaRDI QIDQ3033009FDOQ3033009

Authors: Richard K. Skora, Gaven J. Martin 

Publication date: 1989

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2374665

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zbMATH Keywords

Kleinian groupsHNN-extensionsfree products with amalgamationdiscontinuity setconvergence extension to the 3-ballDecomposition Theoremdiscrete convergence groupsorientation-preserving homeomorphisms of the 2-sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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