Geometrically finite complex hyperbolic manifolds

International Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 703-757

  Apanasov, Boris ^a   Xie, Xiangdong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bieberbach theorems; Cauchy Riemannian structure; Cobordisms; Discrete group; Geometrical finiteness; Manifold of negative curvature; Nilpotent and Heisenberg groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031287907     PISSN: 0129167X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129167X97000378     Document Type: Article

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