4.II.12G

Geometry of Group Actions | Part II, 2007

Explain what it means to say that a group GG is a Kleinian group. What is the definition of the limit set for the group GG ? Prove that a fixed point of a parabolic element in GG must lie in the limit set.

Show that the matrix (1+awaw2a1aw)\left(\begin{array}{cc}1+a w & -a w^{2} \\ a & 1-a w\end{array}\right) represents a parabolic transformation for any non-zero choice of the complex numbers aa and ww. Find its fixed point.

The Gaussian integers are Z[i]={m+in:m,nZ}\mathbb{Z}[i]=\{m+i n: m, n \in \mathbb{Z}\}. Let GG be the set of Möbius transformations zaz+bcz+dz \mapsto \frac{a z+b}{c z+d} with a,b,c,dZ[i]a, b, c, d \in \mathbb{Z}[i] and adbc=1a d-b c=1. Prove that GG is a Kleinian group. For each point w=p+iqrw=\frac{p+i q}{r} with p,q,rp, q, r non-zero integers, find a parabolic transformation TGT \in G that fixes ww. Deduce that the limit set for GG is all of the Riemann sphere.

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