The Classification of Punctured-Torus Groups

Thurston's ending lamination conjecture proposes that a finitely generated Kleinian group is uniquely determined (up to isometry) by the topology of its quotient and a list of invariants that describe the asymptotic geometry of its ends. We present a proof of this conjecture for punctured-torus...

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Published in:Annals of mathematics 1999-03, Vol.149 (2), p.559-626
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