Jørgensen's inequality

In the mathematical theory of Kleinian groups, Jørgensen's inequality is an inequality involving the traces of elements of a Kleinian group, proved by Troels Jørgensen (1976).

The inequality states that if A and B generate a non-elementary discrete subgroup of SL₂(C), then

|{\text{Tr}}(A)^{2}-4|+|{\text{Tr}}(ABA^{-1}B^{-1})-2|\geq 1.\,

References

Jørgensen, Troels (1976), "On discrete groups of Möbius transformations", American Journal of Mathematics, 98 (3): 739–749, doi:10.2307/2373814, ISSN 0002-9327, JSTOR 2373814, MR 0427627

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