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Discontinuous Groups of Isometries in the Hyperbolic Plane

This e-book through Jakob Nielsen (1890-1959) and Werner Fenchel (1905-1988) has had
a lengthy and intricate background. In 1938-39, Nielsen gave a chain of lectures on
discontinuous teams of motions within the non-euclidean aircraft, and this led him - in the course of
World conflict II - to write down the 1st chapters of the ebook (in German). whilst Fenchel,
who needed to get away from Denmark to Sweden a result of German career,
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) was once accomplished in 1948 and it used to be deliberate to be released within the Princeton
Mathematical sequence. in spite of the fact that, as a result of swift improvement of the topic, they felt
that huge alterations needed to be made sooner than ebook.
When Nielsen moved to Copenhagen collage 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 used to be left to Fenchel. The information 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 an entire manuscript (manuscript I) in
English containing Chapters I-V (

1-27). The data additionally comprise a part of a corre-
spondence (first in German yet later in Danish) among Nielsen and Fenchel, the place
Nielsen makes certain 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), used to be a great deal concerned with an intensive revision of the curriculum in al-
gebra and geometry, and focused his examine within the conception of convexity, heading
the overseas Colloquium on Convexity in Copenhagen 1965. for nearly two decades
he additionally positioned a lot attempt into his activity as editor of the newly began magazine Mathematica
Scandinavica. a lot to his dissatisfaction, this task left him little time to complete the
Fenchel-Nielsen venture the way in which he desired to.
After his retirement from the college, Fenchel - assisted via Christian Sieben-
eicher from Bielefeld and Mrs. Obershelp who typed the manuscript - chanced on time to
finish the publication uncomplicated Geometry in Hyperbolic house, which was once released by way of
Walter de Gruyter in 1989 presently after his dying. concurrently, and with an analogous
collaborators, he supervised a typewritten model of the manuscript (manuscript 2) on
discontinuous teams, elimination a number of the vague issues that have been within the unique
manuscript. Fenchel informed me that he reflected elimination elements of the introductory
Chapter I within the manuscript, for the reason that this might be lined by means of the e-book pointed out above;
but to make the Fenchel-Nielsen publication self-contained he finally selected to not do
so. He did choose to miss
27, entitled Thefundamental workforce.

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 task of typing this manuscript in AMS- TEX. i've got additionally had
much support from my colleague J0rn B0rling Olsson (himself a scholar of Kate Fenchel
at Aarhus college) with the evidence examining of the TEX-manuscript (manuscript three)
against manuscript 2 in addition to with a basic dialogue of the difference to the fashion
of TEX. In so much respects we determined to stick to Fenchel's intentions. even though, turning
the typewritten version of the manuscript into TEX helped us to make sure that the notation,
and the spelling of definite key-words, will be uniform in the course of the booklet. additionally,
we have indicated the start and finish of an explanation within the traditional sort of TEX.
With this TEX -manuscript I approached Walter de Gruyter in Berlin in 1992, and
to my nice aid and delight they agreed to submit the manuscript of their sequence
Studies in arithmetic. i'm so much thankful for this confident and fast response. One
particular challenge with the booklet became out to be the replica of the numerous
figures that are a vital part of the presentation. Christian Siebeneicher had at
first agreed to convey those in ultimate digital shape, yet via 1997 it grew to become transparent that he
would no longer manage to locate the time to take action. in spite of the fact that, the writer provided an answer
whereby I should still convey certain drawings of the figures (Fenchel didn't go away such
for Chapters IV and V), after which they'd arrange the creation of the figures in
electronic shape. i'm very thankful to Marcin Adamski, Warsaw, Poland, for his tremendous
collaboration about the real 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 locations the Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript in its right standpoint. In
this connection i need to thank The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and
Letters for permitting us to incorporate during this booklet reproductions of photos of the 2
authors that are within the ownership of the Academy.
Since the manuscript makes use of a couple of certain symbols, a listing of notation with brief
explanations and connection with the particular definition within the publication has been integrated. additionally,
a accomplished index has been further. In either situations, all references are to sections,
not pages.
We thought of including a whole record of references, yet made up our minds opposed to it because of
the overwhelming variety of learn papers during this zone. in its place, a far shorter
list of monographs and different accomplished debts suitable to the topic has been
collected.
My ultimate and so much honest thank you visit Dr. Manfred Karbe from Walter de Gruyter
for his commitment and perseverance in bringing this ebook into lifestyles.

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Finally, recall that G = SO(3, R) is homeomorphic to RP3 , and hence the fundamental group π(G) = Z2 . Therefore the curve Γ2 = 2Γ1 is contractible in G. On the other hand, its image γ2 = τ (Γ2 ) = 2γ1 is not contractible in L O, a contradiction. 3. Two examples of curves γ0 and an example of curve γ1 with winding number 1. 4. Tripods standing on surfaces. Let S ⊂ R3 be an embedded compact orientable surface (without boundary), and denote by P its interior: S = ∂P . Let O ∈ P −S be a fixed point inside S.

11. 9. Average curves C1 and C2 in the second proof. Second proof. Think of ℓ as a horizontal line. Denote by C1 the locus of midpoints of vertical lines intersecting a given polygon X. 11). The endpoints of C1 are the leftmost and rightmost points of X (or the midpoints of the vertical edges). Therefore, curve C2 separates them, and thus intersects C1 . The intersection point is the center of the desired rhombus. 9 to all simple polygons is more delicate. 8, we need to use the mountain climbing lemma twice.

Let f : S2 → R+ be a continuous function on a unit sphere, and let x1 , x2 , x3 ∈ S be three fixed points. Then there exists a rotation ρ ∈ SO(3, R), such that f (ρ(x1 )) = f (ρ(x2 )) = f (ρ(x3 )) . In other words, the theorem says that there exists a spherical triangle (y1 y2 y3 ) congruent to (x1 x2 x3 ), similarly oriented, and such that f (y1 ) = f (y2) = f (y3 ). 4) for the star surfaces. 6. Exercises. 1. a) [1-] Prove that for every tetrahedron ∆ ⊂ R3 there exists a unique circumscribed parallelepiped which touches all edges of ∆.

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