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On the discreteness of Möbius groups in all dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2004

JIANG YUEPING
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, PR China. e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We show that a non-elementary Möbius group acting in higher dimensions is discrete if and only if its elementary subgroup whose elements fix every limit point is finite and every two-generator subgroup is discrete. This result gives an improvement over earlier results of Abikoff and Haas [1], Fang and Nai [5], Martin [11] and the author [9]. We also give an example to show that the first condition is necessary when dimension $n\ge 3$.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2004 Cambridge Philosophical Society

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