A discontinuous group is a mathematical concept relating to mappings in topological space.

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Let   be a topological space of points  , and let  ,  , be an open continuous representation of the topological group   as a transitive group of homeomorphic mappings of   on itself. The representation     of the discrete subgroup   in   is called discontinuous, if no sequence   ( ) converges to a point in  , as   runs over distinct elements of  .[1]

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  1. ^ Carl Ludwig Siegel (1943), Annals of Mathematics (ed.), Discontinuous groups, vol. 44, pp. 674−689