Outer automorphism groups of Bieberbach groups.
We establish that a quasiconformal group is of compact type if and only if its limits set is purely conical and find that the limit set of a quasiconformal group of compact type is uniformly perfect. A key tool is the result of Bowditch-Tukia on compact-type convergence groups. These results provide crucial tools for studying the deformations of quasiconformal groups and in establishing isomorphisms between such groups and conformal groups.
Soit l’ensemble des points d’un groupe algébrique semi-simple connexe de rang relatif un sur un corps local ultramétrique. Nous décrivons tous les sous-groupes discrets de type fini sans torsion de qui agissent proprement et cocompactement sur par multiplication à gauche et à droite. Nous montrons qu’après une petite déformation dans un tel sous-groupe agit encore librement, proprement discontinûment et cocompactement sur .
We study the growth of the rank of subgroups of finite index in residually finite groups, by relating it to the notion of cost. As a by-product, we show that the ‘rank vs. Heegaard genus’ conjecture on hyperbolic 3-manifolds is incompatible with the ‘fixed price problem’ in topological dynamics.