Apollonian circle packings and closed horospheres on hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 603-648

  Kontorovich, Alex ^a   Oh, Hee ^b   Shah, Nimish ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apollonian circle packing; Horospheres; Kleinian group

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953735111     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-2011-00691-7     Document Type: Article

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