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One-ended subgroups of mapping class groups
Brian H. Bowditch
First draft: October 2007. Revised: December 2007 (18 pages).
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Atoroidal surface bundles over surfaces
Brian H. Bowditch
First draft: June 2007. Revised: October 2009 (46 pages).
Geom. Funct. Anal. 19 (2009) 943-988.
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Notes on tameness
Brian H. Bowditch
First draft: June 2006. Revised: November 2009. (45 pages).
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End invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Brian H. Bowditch
December 2005 (32 pages).
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Geometric models for hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Brian H. Bowditch
First draft: August 2005. Revised: October 2006 (81 pages).
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Stacks of hyperbolic spaces and ends of 3-manifolds
Brian H. Bowditch
February 2002 (71 pages).
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Relatively hyperbolic groups
B.H. Bowditch
First draft: July 1997. Revised: March 1999 (63 pages).
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Tight geodesics in the curve complex
Brian H. Bowditch
First draft: October 2003. Revised: November 2003 (16 pages).
Invent. Math. 171 (2008) 281-300.
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Length bounds on curves arising from tight geodesics
Brian H. Bowditch
First draft: November 2003. Revised: March 2007 (33 pages).
Geom. Funct. Anal. 17 (2007) 1001-1042.
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Systems of bands in hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Brian H. Bowditch
First draft: October 2003. Revised: February 2007.
Pacific J. Math. 232 (2007) 1-42.
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Text (36 pages).
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The angel game in the plane
Brian H. Bowditch
First draft: August 2006. Revised: September 2006 (18 pages).
Combin. Probab. Comput. 16 (2007) 345-362.
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The Cannon-Thurston map for punctured-surface groups
Brian H. Bowditch
First draft: December 2001. Revised: February 2002 (48 pages).
Math. Z. 255 (2007) 35-76.
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A course on geometric group theory
Brian H. Bowditch
October 2005.
MSJ Mem. Vol 16 (2006).
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(65 pages: No pictures!)
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Intersection numbers and the hyperbolicity of the curve complex
Brian H. Bowditch
First draft: July 2002. Revised: September 2002 (23 pages).
J. reine angew. Math. 598 (2006) 105-129.
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Hyperbolic 3-manifolds and the geometry of the curve complex
Brian H. Bowditch
September 2004 (13 pages)
: in ``European Congress of Mathematics, Stockholm, June 27 - July 2, 2004''
(ed. A.Laptev) European Mathematical Society Publishing House (2005) 103-115.
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Hausdorff dimension and dendritic limit sets
Brian H. Bowditch
January 2003 (8 pages). Math. Annalen 332 (2005) 667-676.
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Planar groups and the Seifert conjecture
B.H. Bowditch
First draft: December 1998. Revised: November 1999 (51 pages).
J. reine angew. Math. 576 (2004) 11-62.
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Groups acting on Cantor sets and the end structure of graphs
B.H. Bowditch
First draft: February 2000. Revised: January 2001 (26 pages). Pacific J. Math. 207 (2002) 31-60.
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Splittings of finitely generated groups over two-ended subgroups
B.H. Bowditch
First draft: November 1999. Revised: January 2001 (34 pages).
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 354 (2002) 1049-1078.
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Peripheral splittings of groups
B.H. Bowditch
First draft: January 1998. Revised: January 2001 (28 pages), Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 353 (2001) 4057-4082.
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Archimedean actions on median pretrees
B.H. Bowditch, J. Crisp
Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 130 (2001) 383-400. (17 pages)
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A variation on the unique product property
Brian H. Bowditch
J. London Math. Soc. 62 (2000) 813-826. (15 pages)
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Boundaries of geometrically finite groups
B.H. Bowditch
Math. Z. 230 (1999) 509-527. (16 pages)
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Connectedness properties of limit sets
B.H. Bowditch
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 351 (1999) 3673-3686. (14 pages)
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Treelike structures arising from continua and convergence groups
B.H. Bowditch
Memoirs Amer. Math. Soc. 662 (1999). (85 pages)
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Convergence groups and configuration spaces
B.H. Bowditch
in ``Geometric Group Theory Down Under, proceedings of a
Special Year in Geometric Group Theory, Canberra, Australia''
(ed. J.Cossey, C.F.Miller III, W.D.Neumann, M.Shapiro), de Gruyter (1999),
23-54. (31 pages)
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Boundaries of strongly accessible hyperbolic groups
B.H. Bowditch,
revised November 1997
in ``The Epstein Birthday Schrift'', Geometry and Topology Monographs
Volume 1, (ed. I.Rivin, C.Rourke, C.Series) International Press (1998) 51-97.
(39 pages)
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A topological characterisation of hyperbolic groups
B.H. Bowditch
J. Amer. Math. Soc. 11 (1998) 643-667. (28 pages)
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Group actions on trees and dendrons
B.H. Bowditch
Topology 37 (1998) 1275-1298. (26 pages)
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Cut points and canonical splittings of hyperbolic groups
B.H. Bowditch
Acta Math. 180 (1998) 145-186. (38 pages)
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Continuously many quasiisometry classes of 2-generator groups
B.H. Bowditch
Comment. Math. Helv. 73 (1998) 232-236. (5 pages)
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Spaces of geometrically finite representations
B.H. Bowditch
Ann. Acad. Sci. Fenn. Math. 23 (1998) 389-414. (24 pages)
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Markoff triples and quasifuchsian groups
B.H. Bowditch
Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 77 (1998) 697-736. (42 pages)
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The following is a preprint version of a published article, now apparently out of print.
Notes on Gromov's hyperbolicity criterion for path-metric spaces
B.H. Bowditch
IHES preprint version, June 1990.
In: ``Group theory from a geometrical viewpoint'' (ed. E.Ghys, A.Haefliger, A.Verjovsky)
World Scientific (1991) 64-167.
Abstract.
Chapters 0-6. (58 pages)[Scanned pdf (1462K)]
Chapters 7-8. (40 pages)[Scanned pdf (1215K)]