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A rigidity theorem for discrete groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Wen-Haw Chen  and
Jyh-Yang Wu
Wen-Haw Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan, e-mail: whchen@thu.edu.tw
Jyh-Yang Wu
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, National Chung-Cheng University, Chai-Yi 621, Taiwan, e-mail: jywu@math.ccu.edu.tw
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This work considers the discrete subgroups of group of isometries of an Alexandrov space with a lower curvature bound. By developing the notion of Hausdorff distance in these groups, a rigidity theorem for the close discrete groups was proved.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 73 , Issue 1 , February 2006 , pp. 1 - 8
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2006

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