Global contact and quasiconformal mappings of Carnot groups
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- by Michael G. Cowling and Alessandro Ottazzi
- Conform. Geom. Dyn. 19 (2015), 221-239
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/ecgd/282
- Published electronically: September 29, 2015
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Abstract:
We show that globally defined quasiconformal mappings of rigid Carnot groups are affine, but that globally defined contact mappings of rigid Carnot groups need not be quasiconformal, and a fortiori not affine.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Michael G. Cowling
- Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney 2052, Australia
- MR Author ID: 52360
- ORCID: 0000-0003-0995-3054
- Alessandro Ottazzi
- Affiliation: CIRM, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 15, I-38123 Trento, Italy
- Address at time of publication: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney 2052, Australia
- MR Author ID: 762185
- ORCID: 0000-0002-4692-2751
- Received by editor(s): April 14, 2015
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 7, 2015
- Published electronically: September 29, 2015
- Additional Notes: Both authors thank the Australian Research Council for support (DP140100531), and the referee for reading the paper very carefully and helping to improve it. The second named author partially supported by the Gruppo Nazionale per l’Analisi Matematica, la Probabilità e le loro Applicazioni (GNAMPA)
- © Copyright 2015 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Conform. Geom. Dyn. 19 (2015), 221-239
- MSC (2010): Primary 30L10; Secondary 57S20, 35R03, 53C23
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/ecgd/282
- MathSciNet review: 3402499