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On the density of geometrically finite Kleinian groups

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The first author was supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship and NSF research grants. The second author was supproted by NSF research grants and the Clay Mathematics Institute.

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Brock, J.F., Bromberg, K.W. On the density of geometrically finite Kleinian groups. Acta Math. 192, 33–93 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02441085

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