Foundations of Hyperbolic Manifolds

Description

This book is an exposition of the theoretical foundations of hyperbolic manifolds. It is intended to be used both as a textbook and as a reference. This third edition greatly expands upon the second with an abundance of additional content, including a section dedicated to arithmetic hyperbolic groups. Over 40 new lemmas, theorems, and corollaries feature, along with more than 70 additional exercises. Color adds a new dimension to figures throughout. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is concerned with hyperbolic geometry and discrete groups. The main results are the characterization of hyperbolic reflection groups and Euclidean crystallographic groups. The second part is devoted to the theory of hyperbolic manifolds. The main results are Mostow’s rigidity theorem and the determination of the global geometry of hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume. The third part integrates the first two parts in a development of the theory of hyperbolic orbifolds. The main result is Poincaré’s fundamental polyhedron theorem. The exposition is at the level of a second year graduate student with particular emphasis placed on readability and completeness of argument. After reading this book, the reader will have the necessary background to study the current research on hyperbolic manifolds. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Euclidean Geometry (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 1-33 Spherical Geometry (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 34-51 Hyperbolic Geometry (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 52-96 Inversive Geometry (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 97-141 Isometries of Hyperbolic Space (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 142-184 Geometry of Discrete Groups (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 185-259 Classical Discrete Groups (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 260-333 Geometric Manifolds (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 334-374 Geometric Surfaces (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 375-433 Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 434-505 Hyperbolic n-Manifolds (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 506-596 Geometrically Finite n-Manifolds (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 597-697 Geometric Orbifolds (John G. Ratcliffe)....Pages 698-765 Back Matter ....Pages 766-800