Geometric structures on orbifolds and holonomy representations

Geometriae Dedicata

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 161-199

  Choi, Suhyoung ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Deformation space; Geometric structure; Group representation; Orbifold

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043149992     PISSN: 00465755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:GEOM.0000022859.74165.44     Document Type: Article

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