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G.D. Mostow’s celebrated Rigidity Theorem has taken some curious forms on the real line. All assume that f (a continuous strictly increasing real valued function of a real variable) is the “boundary mapping” of an isomorphism between Fuchsian groups.
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Agard, S. (1988). Mostow rigidity on the line: A survey. In: Drasin, D., Earle, C.J., Gehring, F.W., Kra, I., Marden, A. (eds) Holomorphic Functions and Moduli II. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, vol 11. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9611-6_1
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