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Foundations of Hyperbolic Manifolds / by John Ratcliffe
(Graduate Texts in Mathematics. ISSN:21975612 ; 149)

Edition	1st ed. 1994.
Publisher	(New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer)
Year	1994
Language	English
Size	XI, 750 p : online resource
Authors	*Ratcliffe, John author SpringerLink (Online service)
Subjects	LCSH:Geometry LCSH:Algebraic geometry LCSH:Topology FREE:Geometry FREE:Algebraic Geometry FREE:Topology
Notes	1 Euclidean Geometry -- 2 Spherical Geometry -- 3 Hyperbolic Geometry -- 4 Inversive Geometry -- 5 Isometries of Hyperbolic Space -- 6 Geometry of Discrete Groups -- 7 Classical Discrete Groups -- 8 Geometric Manifolds -- 9 Geometric Surfaces -- 10 Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds -- 11 Hyperbolic n-Manifolds -- 12 Geometrically Finite n-Manifolds -- 13 Geometric Orbifolds This book is an exposition of the theoretical foundations of hyperbolic manifolds. It is intended to be used both as a textbook and as a reference. Particular emphasis has been placed on readability and completeness of ar­ gument. The treatment of the material is for the most part elementary and self-contained. The reader is assumed to have a basic knowledge of algebra and topology at the first-year graduate level of an American university. The book is divided into three parts. The first part, consisting of Chap­ ters 1-7, is concerned with hyperbolic geometry and basic properties of discrete groups of isometries of hyperbolic space. The main results are the existence theorem for discrete reflection groups, the Bieberbach theorems, and Selberg's lemma. The second part, consisting of Chapters 8-12, is de­ voted to the theory of hyperbolic manifolds. The main results are Mostow's rigidity theorem and the determination of the structure of geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds. The third part, consisting of Chapter 13, in­ tegrates the first two parts in a development of the theory of hyperbolic orbifolds. The main results are the construction of the universal orbifold covering space and Poincare's fundamental polyhedron theorem HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4013-4

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