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Preliminaries

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In this chapter, we briefly review well-known facts on circle actions and on (discrete or indiscrete) subgroups of \( \operatorname {\mathrm {PSL}}_2(\mathbb {R})\).

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  1. School of Mathematics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Sang-hyun Kim

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

    Thomas Koberda

  3. School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

    Mahan Mj

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Kim, Sh., Koberda, T., Mj, M. (2019). Preliminaries. In: Flexibility of Group Actions on the Circle. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2231. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02855-8_2

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