Fuchsian Groups, Quasiconformal Groups, and Conical Limit Sets

Jones, Peter; Ward, Lesley

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02118-2

Fuchsian Groups, Quasiconformal Groups, and Conical Limit Sets
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Abstract:

We construct examples showing that the normalized Lebesgue measure of the conical limit set of a uniformly quasiconformal group acting discontinuously on the disc may take any value between zero and one. This is in contrast to the cases of Fuchsian groups acting on the disc, conformal groups acting discontinuously on the ball in dimension three or higher, uniformly quasiconformal groups acting discontinuously on the ball in dimension three or higher, and discrete groups of biholomorphic mappings acting on the ball in several complex dimensions. In these cases the normalized Lebesgue measure is either zero or one.

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