Uniform convergence in the mapping class group

DOI10.1017/S0143385707000818MaRDI QIDQ3528757zbMATH OpenFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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