The structure of extended function groups

Rubén A. Hidalgo

doi:10.4067/S0719-06462021000300369

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0719-06462021000300369

Abstract

Conformal (respectively, anticonformal) automorphisms of the Riemann sphere are provided by the Möbius (respectively, extended Möbius) transformations. A Kleinian group (respectively, an extended Kleinian group) is a discrete group of Möbius transformations (respectively, a discrete group of Möbius and extended Möbius transformations, necessarily containing extended ones).

A function group (respectively, an extended function group) is a finitely generated Kleinian group (respectively, a finitely generated extended Kleinian group) with an invariant connected component of its region of discontinuity.

A structural decomposition of function groups, in terms of the Klein- Maskit combination theorems, was provided by Maskit in the middle of the 70‘s. One should expect a similar decomposition structure for extended function groups, but it seems not to be stated in the existing literature. The aim of this paper is to state and provide a proof of such a decomposition structural picture.

Keywords

Kleinian groups , equivariant loop theorem

Rubén A. Hidalgo Departamento de Matemática y Estadística, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.

Pages: 369–384
Date Published: 2021-12-01
Vol. 23 No. 3 (2021)

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