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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2011 ii Paper 3 3G Solution by
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A Kleinian group is a discrete subgroup of , acting by Möbius transformations on the Riemann sphere, equivalently by orientation-preserving isometries of hyperbolic space .
Consider the classes ofThey generate a discrete subgroup because their matrix representatives have integer entries: a sequence of such matrices converging to or is eventually constant. On the real projective line set and . For every nonzero integer ,The last inclusion follows from when ; also . The ping-pong lemma therefore says that the subgroup is the free product . Both generators have infinite order, soa free group on two generators. The ping-pong inclusions ensure that no nonempty reduced word can act as the identity, which is the essential freeness argument.
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