Foundations of Hyperbolic Manifolds / by John G. Ratcliffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ratcliffe, John G., 1948- author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Mathematics and Statistics (Springer-11649)

Graduate texts in mathematics 0072-5285 ; 149.

Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 0072-5285 ; 149

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geometry.

Topology.

Topological groups.

Lie groups.

Topological Groups, Lie Groups.

Local Subjects:

Geometry.

Topology.

Topological Groups, Lie Groups.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 800 pages) : 160 illustrations, 152 illustrations in color.

Edition:

Third edition 2019.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.

System Details:

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Summary:

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. This third edition greatly expands upon the second with an abundance of additional content, including a section dedicated to arithmetic hyperbolic groups. Over 40 new lemmas, theorems, and corollaries feature, along with more than 70 additional exercises. Color adds a new dimension to figures throughout. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is concerned with hyperbolic geometry and discrete groups. The main results are the characterization of hyperbolic reflection groups and Euclidean crystallographic groups. The second part is devoted to the theory of hyperbolic manifolds. The main results are Mostow's rigidity theorem and the determination of the global geometry of hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume. The third part integrates the first two parts in a development of the theory of hyperbolic orbifolds. The main result is Poincaré's fundamental polyhedron theorem. The exposition is at the level of a second year graduate student with particular emphasis placed on readability and completeness of argument. After reading this book, the reader will have the necessary background to study the current research on hyperbolic manifolds. From reviews of the second edition: Designed to be useful as both textbook and a reference, this book renders a real service to the mathematical community by putting together the tools and prerequisites needed to enter the territory of Thurston's formidable theory of hyperbolic 3-manifolds [...] Every chapter is followed by historical notes, with attributions to the relevant literature, both of the originators of the idea present in the chapter and of modern presentation thereof. Victor V. Pambuccian, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1106 (8), 2007.

Contents:

Euclidean Geometry

Spherical Geometry

Hyperbolic Geometry

Inversive Geometry

Isometries of Hyperbolic Space

Geometry of Discrete Groups

Classical Discrete Groups

Geometric Manifolds

Geometric Surfaces

Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds

Hyperbolic n-Manifolds

Geometrically Finite n-Manifolds

Geometric Orbifolds.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-030-31597-9

9783030315979

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