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Author: Alan F. Beardon
Title: The geometry of discrete groups
Additional book information: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 91, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1983, xii + 337 pp., $39.00. ISBN 0-387-90788-2.

William Abikoff, The real analytic theory of Teichmüller space, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 820, Springer, Berlin, 1980. MR 590044

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Olli Lehto, Univalent functions and Teichmüller spaces, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol. 109, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1987. MR 867407, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4613-8652-0

John W. Morgan, The Smith conjecture, The Smith conjecture (New York, 1979) Pure Appl. Math., vol. 112, Academic Press, Orlando, FL, 1984, pp. 3–6. MR 758460, DOI 10.1016/S0079-8169(08)61632-3

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Hsien-chung Wang, Discrete nilpotent subgroups of Lie groups, J. Differential Geometry 3 (1969), 481–492. MR 260930

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W. Abikoff, The real analytic theory of Teichmüller space, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 820, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1980. MR 0590044

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A. Fathi, F. Laudenbach, V. Poenaru et al., Travaux de Thurston sur les surfaces, Astérisque 66-67 (1979). MR 568308

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W. J. Harvey (ed. ), Discrete groups and automorphic functions, Academic Press, New York, 1977. MR 498974

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T. Jørgensen, On discrete groups of Möbius transformations, Amer. J. Math. 98 (1976), 739-749. MR 427627

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O. Lehto, Univalent functions and Teichmüller spaces, Springer-Verlag, 1987. MR 867407

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J. W. Morgan and H. Bass (eds. ), The Smith conjecture, Academic Press, New York, 1984. MR 758460

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W. Thurston, The geometry and topology of 3-manifolds, Lecture Notes, Princeton Univ., 1980.

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H. -C. Wang, Discrete nilpotent subgroups of Lie groups, J. Differential Geom. 3 (1969), 481-492. MR 260930