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Discreteness criteria for Möbius groups acting on\(\mathcal{O}\mathcal{L}_p \)

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In this paper, three new discreteness criteria for Möbius groups acting on\(\bar R^{n * } \) are obtained; they are generalizations of known results using the information of two-generator subgroups.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Hunan Normal University, 410081, Changsha, Hunan, People's Republic of China

    Xiantao Wang & Liulan Li

  2. Institute of Mathematics, Hunan University of Science and Technology, 411201, Xiangtan, Hunan, People's Republic of China

    Wensheng Cao

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The research was partly supported by FNS of China, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, the Foundation for Scholars back from Foreign Countries and Scientific Research Item of Human Province Education Committee (No. 02C448).

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Wang, X., Li, L. & Cao, W. Discreteness criteria for Möbius groups acting on\(\mathcal{O}\mathcal{L}_p \) . Isr. J. Math. 150, 357–368 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02762387

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