Let
denote the exponent of convergence of the Poincare series

where z,w are fixed points of
and (a,b)
is the hyperbolic distance from a to b.
Let
denote the Hausdorff dimension of the limit set
.
By work of Patterson
[11],
[12]
and Sullivan
[17],
[18],

and

as long as
.
Thus our universal lower bound for
implies
a universal upper bound
for
and
.