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Constructing geometrically infinite groups on boundaries of deformation spaces

Geometric Topology 2008-09-09 v1

Abstract

Consider a geometrically finite Kleinian group GG without parabolic or elliptic elements, with its Kleinian manifold M=(\H^3\cup \Omega_G)/G. Suppose that for each boundary component of MM, either a maximal and connected measured lamination in the Masur domain or a marked conformal structure is given. In this setting, we shall prove that there is an algebraic limit Γ\Gamma of quasi-conformal deformations of GG such that there is a homeomorphism hh from IntM\mathrm{Int} M to \H^3/\Gamma compatible with the natural isomorphism from GG to Γ\Gamma, the given laminations are unrealisable in \H^3/\Gamma, and the given conformal structures are pushed forward by hh to those of \H^3/\Gamma. Based on this theorem and its proof, in the subsequent paper, the Bers-Thurston conjecture, saying that every finitely generated Kleinian group is an algebraic limit of quasi-conformal deformations of minimally parabolic geometrically finite group, is proved using recent solutions of Marden's conjecture by Agol, Calegari-Gabai, and the ending lamination conjecture by Minsky collaborating with Brock, Canary and Masur.

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@article{arxiv.0809.1261,
  title  = {Constructing geometrically infinite groups on boundaries of deformation spaces},
  author = {Ken'ichi Ohshika},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.1261},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

This is a revised version of my preprint which I disseminated some years ago

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