Lectures on Hyperbolic Geometry

Lectures on Hyperbolic Geometry
ISBN-10
3642581587
ISBN-13
9783642581588
Category
Mathematics
Pages
330
Language
English
Published
2012-12-06
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Riccardo Benedetti, Carlo Petronio

Description

Focussing on the geometry of hyperbolic manifolds, the aim here is to provide an exposition of some fundamental results, while being as self-contained, complete, detailed and unified as possible. Following some classical material on the hyperbolic space and the Teichmüller space, the book centers on the two fundamental results: Mostow's rigidity theorem (including a complete proof, following Gromov and Thurston) and Margulis' lemma. These then form the basis for studying Chabauty and geometric topology; a unified exposition is given of Wang's theorem and the Jorgensen-Thurston theory; and much space is devoted to the 3D case: a complete and elementary proof of the hyperbolic surgery theorem, based on the representation of three manifolds as glued ideal tetrahedra.

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