An Introduction to Imaginary Geometry
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This expository paper is based on the theory of imaginary geometry, due to Sheffield and Miller. We aim to explain enough of the theory for the reader to understand the main constructions and some basic interactions between them in a short time. We suppress the more technical aspects when possible to focus attention on building geometric intuition.
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