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On lifting Fuchsian Groups
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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Let Γ be a discrete subgroup of G = PSL(2,ℝ) and p be the canonical map from the universal covering group on to PSL(2,ℝ). By a continuity argument on a fundamental polygon for Γ acting on the hyperbolic plane 2, Milnor (4) obtained a presentation for p−1(Γ) whenever 2/Γ is compact and of genus zero. Using Teichmüller theory and a double Reidemeister-Schreier process, Macbeath(2) showed that the general compact case can be deduced from Milnor's result. We give here a method of obtaining a presentation which uses only the geometry of a Dirichlet region and which applies equally to the non-compact case.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 87 , Issue 1 , January 1980 , pp. 61 - 67
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- Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1980