Geometry of group representations : proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held July 5-11, 1987 with support from the National Science Foundation / William M. Goldman and Andy R. Magid, editors
""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Participants""; ""List of Talks""; ""Kleinian Groups � Geometrically Finite and Geometrically Perverse""; ""The Real Spectrum Compactification of Teichmuller Space""; ""A Semi-Algebraic Brower Fixed Point Theorem for Real Affine Space""; ""The Tree of a Non-Archimedean Hyperbolic Plane""; ""Gauge Theory and Representations of Kahler Groups""; ""The Diophantine Nature of Some Constructions at Infinity""; ""Complex Representations and One-Relator Products of Cyclics""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Freiheitssatz""; ""3. The Tits Alternative""
4. Normal Torsion-Free Subgroups5. Amalgam Decompositions -- 6. Non-Proper Power Relators -- Sometimes H1 is H2 and Discrete Groups Deform -- Geometric Structures on Manifolds and Varieties of Representations -- Topological Rigidity of Developing Maps with Applications to Conformally Flat Structures -- Modular Groups and Representation Spaces -- Local Structures of Representation Varieties: Examples -- Deformations of Representations of Finitely Generated Groups -- Connected Components of Representation Varieties -- A Characterization of Orbit Closure
Calculus on Moduli SpacesAffine Homogeneous Spaces -- Deformations and Discrete Subgroups of Loop Groups -- Afterword
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