Hyperbolic Geometry and Distance Functions on Discrete Groups

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Authors: Anne Thomas 

Publication date: 27 December 2007

Abstract: Chapter 1 is a short history of non-Euclidean geometry, which synthesises my readings of mostly secondary sources. Chapter 2 presents each of the main models of hyperbolic geometry, and describes the tesselation of the upper half-plane induced by the action of $PSL(2,mathbbZ)$. Chapter 3 gives background on symmetric spaces and word metrics. Chapter 4 then contains a careful proof of the following theorem of Lubotzky--Mozes--Raghunathan: the word metric on $PSL(2,mathbbZ)$ is not Lipschitz equivalent to the metric induced by its action on the associated symmetric space (the upper half-plane), but for $ngeq3$, these two metrics on $PSL(n,mathbbZ)$ are Lipschitz equivalent.

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