Quasi-conformal maps and the asymptotic geometry of manifolds

V. A. Zorich

Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Tome 57 (2002) no. 3, pp. 437-462

Résumé

This survey concerns some problems and results in the theory of quasi-conformal maps (mainly of the spatial theory and mainly in the geometric aspect). The development of ideas is traced from their origin to their modern realization, and a series of new problems is indicated which arose naturally from solutions of old problems.

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