Density theorem for Kleinian groups
In the mathematical theory of Kleinian groups, the density conjecture of Lipman Bers, Dennis Sullivan, and William Thurston, later proved by Namazi & Suoto (2010) and Ohshika (2011), states that every finitely generated Kleinian group is an algebraic limit of geometrically finite Kleinian groups.
History
Bers (1970) suggested the Bers density conjecture, that singly degenerate Kleinian surface groups are on the boundary of a Bers slice. This was proved by Bromberg (2007) for Kleinian groups with no parabolic elements. A more general version of Bers's conjecture due to Sullivan and Thurston states that every finitely generated Kleinian group is an algebraic limit of geometrically finite Kleinian groups. Brock & Bromberg (2004) proved this for freely indecomposable Kleinian groups without parabolic elements. The density conjecture was finally proved using the tameness theorem and the ending lamination theorem by Namazi & Suoto (2010) and Ohshika (2011).
References
- Bers, Lipman (1970), "On boundaries of Teichmüller spaces and on Kleinian groups. I", Annals of Mathematics. Second Series, 91: 570–600, ISSN 0003-486X, JSTOR 1970638, MR 0297992
- Brock, Jeffrey F.; Bromberg, Kenneth W. (2003), "Cone-manifolds and the density conjecture", Kleinian groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds (Warwick, 2001), London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 299, Cambridge University Press, pp. 75–93, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511542817.004, MR 2044545
- Brock, Jeffrey F.; Bromberg, Kenneth W. (2004), "On the density of geometrically finite Kleinian groups", Acta Mathematica, 192 (1): 33–93, doi:10.1007/BF02441085, ISSN 0001-5962, MR 2079598
- Bromberg, K. (2007), "Projective structures with degenerate holonomy and the Bers density conjecture", Annals of Mathematics. Second Series, 166 (1): 77–93, doi:10.4007/annals.2007.166.77, ISSN 0003-486X, MR 2342691
- Namazi, Hossein; Souto, Juan (2010), Non-realizability, ending laminations and the density conjecture
- Ohshika, Ken'ichi (2011), "Realising end invariants by limits of minimally parabolic, geometrically finite groups", Geometry and Topology, 15 (2): 827–890, doi:10.2140/gt.2011.15.827, ISSN 1364-0380
- Series, Caroline (2005), "A crash course on Kleinian groups", Rendiconti dell'Istituto di Matematica dell'Università di Trieste, 37 (1): 1–38, ISSN 0049-4704, MR 2227047