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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/8999
Title: Triangles in the Heisenberg Group
Authors: Cappadocia, Christopher
Advisor: Nicas, Andrew
Department: Mathematics
Keywords: Mathematics;Mathematics
Publication Date: 2010
Abstract: <p>In the Heisenberg Lie group with the Carnot-Caratheodory metric, we classify geodesic triangles up to isometry in terms of side-length and geodesic parameters. We obtain an angle deficit formula for Heisenberg triangles. We construct classical moduli spaces <em>T</em> and S<sub>3</sub>\T for ordered and for unordered Heisenberg triangles respectively, computing homotopy type and manifold properties of the spaces, and producing a compactification of <em>T</em> up to similarity under the non-isotropic dilation.</p>
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/8999
Identifier: opendissertations/4161
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