Uniform convergence in the mapping class group

DOI10.1017/S0143385707000818zbMATH Open1153.57013arXiv0704.2587MaRDI QIDQ3528757FDOQ3528757

Authors: Richard Peabody IV Kent, Christopher J. Leininger 

Publication date: 17 October 2008

Published in: Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We characterize convex cocompact subgroups of the mapping class group of a surface in terms of uniform convergence actions on the zero locus of the limit set. We also construct subgroups that act as uniform convergence groups on their limit sets, but are not convex cocompact.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2587

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zbMATH Keywords

Kleinian groupconvex cocompactness for mapping class groupnon-elementary group notion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

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