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JØRGENSEN’S INEQUALITY FOR QUATERNIONIC HYPERBOLIC SPACE WITH ELLIPTIC ELEMENTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2009

WENSHENG CAO*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Physics, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, PR China (email: wenscao@yahoo.com.cn)
HAIOU TAN
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Physics, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, PR China (email: hotan@wyu.cn)
*
For correspondence; e-mail: wenscao@yahoo.com.cn
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Abstract

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In this paper, we give an analogue of Jørgensen’s inequality for nonelementary groups of isometries of quaternionic hyperbolic space generated by two elements, one of which is elliptic. As an application, we obtain an analogue of Jørgensen’s inequality in the two-dimensional Möbius group of the above case.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc. 2009

Footnotes

Supported by NSFs of China (No. 10801107, No. 10671004), NSF of Guangdong Province (No. 8452902001000043) and Educational Commission of Guangdong Province (No. LYM08097). Supported by NSF of Guangdong Province (No. 8152902001000004)

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