The Heisenberg group acts on a strictly convex domain
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- by Daryl Cooper
- Conform. Geom. Dyn. 21 (2017), 101-104
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/ecgd/307
- Published electronically: February 7, 2017
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Abstract:
This paper gives the first example of a unipotent group that is not virtually abelian and preserves a strictly convex domain.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Daryl Cooper
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106
- MR Author ID: 239760
- Email: cooper@math.ucsb.edu
- Received by editor(s): August 22, 2016
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: December 14, 2016
- Published electronically: February 7, 2017
- Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by NSF grants DMS 1065939, 1207068, 1045292 and acknowledges support from U.S. National Science Foundation grants DMS 1107452, 1107263, 1107367 “RNMS: GEometric structures And Representation varieties” (the GEAR Network)
- © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Conform. Geom. Dyn. 21 (2017), 101-104
- MSC (2010): Primary 57M25, 57N10
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/ecgd/307
- MathSciNet review: 3605666