Convergence groups are Fuchsian groups

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-1991-16082-9zbMath0733.57022MaRDI QIDQ5896599

David Gabai

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Fuchsian groupSeifert fiber spaceNielsen realization problemdiscrete groups of homeomorphismsTorus Theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

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