The Poincaré exponent and the dimensions of Kleinian limit sets
Abstract
Kleinian groups are discrete groups of isometries of hyperbolic space. Their actions give rise to intricate fractal limit sets on the boundary at infinity and there is great interest in estimating the “dimension” of these limit sets. As an invitation to this fascinating area, we provide a proof of the (well-known) result that the Poincaré exponent of a nonelementary Kleinian group is a lower bound for the upper box dimension of the limit set. Our proof uses only elementary hyperbolic and fractal geometry.
Citation
Fraser , J M 2022 , ' The Poincaré exponent and the dimensions of Kleinian limit sets ' , The American Mathematical Monthly , vol. 129 , no. 5 , pp. 480-484 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2022.2041362
Publication
The American Mathematical Monthly
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0002-9890Type
Journal item
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The author was financially supported by an EPSRC Standard Grant (EP/R015104/1) and a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (RPG-2019-034).Collections
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