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Discontinuous Groups of Isometries in the Hyperbolic Plane

This booklet through Jakob Nielsen (1890-1959) and Werner Fenchel (1905-1988) has had
a lengthy and intricate heritage. In 1938-39, Nielsen gave a sequence of lectures on
discontinuous teams of motions within the non-euclidean aircraft, and this led him - in the course of
World battle II - to jot down the 1st chapters of the e-book (in German). while Fenchel,
who needed to break out from Denmark to Sweden end result of the German profession,
returned in 1945, Nielsen initiated a collaboration with him on what grew to become identified
as the Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript. at the moment they have been either on the Technical
University in Copenhagen. the 1st draft of the Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript (now
in English) used to be accomplished in 1948 and it was once deliberate to be released within the Princeton
Mathematical sequence. besides the fact that, as a result of the fast improvement of the topic, they felt
that mammoth adjustments needed to be made prior to e-book.
When Nielsen moved to Copenhagen college in 1951 (where he stayed till
1955), he was once a lot concerned with the overseas association UNESCO, and the
further writing of the manuscript was once left to Fenchel. The records of Fenchel now
deposited and catalogued on the division of arithmetic at Copenhagen Univer-
sity comprise unique manuscripts: a partial manuscript (manuscript zero) in Ger-
man containing Chapters I-II (

I -15), and a whole manuscript (manuscript I) in
English containing Chapters I-V (

1-27). The documents additionally comprise a part of a corre-
spondence (first in German yet later in Danish) among Nielsen and Fenchel, the place
Nielsen makes specified reviews to Fenchel's writings of Chapters III-V. Fenchel,
who succeeded N. E. Nf/Jrlund at Copenhagen college in 1956 (and stayed there
until 1974), was once a great deal concerned with a radical revision of the curriculum in al-
gebra and geometry, and focused his learn within the thought of convexity, heading
the overseas Colloquium on Convexity in Copenhagen 1965. for nearly two decades
he additionally placed a lot attempt into his activity as editor of the newly began magazine Mathematica
Scandinavica. a lot to his dissatisfaction, this job left him little time to complete the
Fenchel-Nielsen undertaking the way in which he desired to.
After his retirement from the collage, Fenchel - assisted through Christian Sieben-
eicher from Bielefeld and Mrs. Obershelp who typed the manuscript - came across time to
finish the ebook basic Geometry in Hyperbolic house, which used to be released by way of
Walter de Gruyter in 1989 almost immediately after his loss of life. at the same time, and with an analogous
collaborators, he supervised a typewritten model of the manuscript (manuscript 2) on
discontinuous teams, elimination a number of the imprecise issues that have been within the unique
manuscript. Fenchel informed me that he meditated elimination components of the introductory
Chapter I within the manuscript, for the reason that this could be coated through the publication pointed out above;
but to make the Fenchel-Nielsen ebook self-contained he eventually selected to not do
so. He did choose to pass over
27, entitled Thefundamental crew.

As editor, i began in 1990, with the consent of the criminal heirs of Fenchel and
Nielsen, to provide a TEX-version from the newly typewritten model (manuscript 2).
I am thankful to Dita Andersen and Lise Fuldby-Olsen in my division for hav-
ing performed a superb activity of typing this manuscript in AMS- TEX. i've got additionally had
much support from my colleague J0rn B0rling Olsson (himself a pupil of Kate Fenchel
at Aarhus collage) with the facts analyzing of the TEX-manuscript (manuscript three)
against manuscript 2 in addition to with a common dialogue of the variation to the fashion
of TEX. In so much respects we made up our minds to stick with Fenchel's intentions. notwithstanding, turning
the typewritten variation of the manuscript into TEX helped us to make sure that the notation,
and the spelling of yes key-words, will be uniform during the booklet. additionally,
we have indicated the start and finish of an explanation within the ordinary form of TEX.
With this TEX -manuscript I approached Walter de Gruyter in Berlin in 1992, and
to my nice reduction and delight they agreed to put up the manuscript of their sequence
Studies in arithmetic. i'm so much thankful for this confident and quickly response. One
particular challenge with the e-book grew to become out to be the replica of the various
figures that are an essential component of the presentation. Christian Siebeneicher had at
first agreed to bring those in ultimate digital shape, yet by means of 1997 it turned transparent that he
would no longer be capable of locate the time to take action. although, the writer provided an answer
whereby I should still convey specific drawings of the figures (Fenchel didn't depart such
for Chapters IV and V), after which they might set up the construction of the figures in
electronic shape. i'm very thankful to Marcin Adamski, Warsaw, Poland, for his positive
collaboration in regards to the genuine construction of the figures.
My colleague Bent Fuglede, who has personaHy identified either authors, has kindly
written a brief biography of the 2 of them and their mathematical achievements,
and which additionally areas the Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript in its right viewpoint. In
this connection i want to thank The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and
Letters for permitting us to incorporate during this booklet reproductions of images of the 2
authors that are within the ownership of the Academy.
Since the manuscript makes use of a few unique symbols, an inventory of notation with brief
explanations and connection with the particular definition within the e-book has been integrated. additionally,
a accomplished index has been additional. In either instances, all references are to sections,
not pages.
We thought of including a whole record of references, yet determined opposed to it as a result of
the overwhelming variety of study papers during this quarter. as a substitute, a miles shorter
list of monographs and different complete debts proper to the topic has been
collected.
My ultimate and such a lot honest thank you visit Dr. Manfred Karbe from Walter de Gruyter
for his commitment and perseverance in bringing this booklet into lifestyles.

Statistics on Special Manifolds

This ebook is worried with statistical research at the targeted manifolds, the Stiefel manifold and the Grassmann manifold, handled as statistical pattern areas inclusive of matrices. the previous is represented by means of the set of m x okay matrices whose columns are together orthogonal k-variate vectors of unit size, and the latter through the set of m x m orthogonal projection matrices idempotent of rank okay.