Abstract
We show that every deformation of a divergence-type Fuchsian group has a limit set which is either a circle or has dimension strictly larger than $1$. This is known to be false for all convergence-type groups, and hence solves Bowen’s problem in the general case. The proof uses a theorem of Dennis Sullivan’s about convex hulls in hyperbolic $3$-space and we give a new, simpler proof of this result as well.
