Volume estimates for equiangular hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra (Q1022516): Difference between revisions

A Coxeter polyhedron is a polyhedron in hyperbolic space whose dihedral angles are of the form \(\pi/n\), where \(n\geq 2\) is an integer. A Coxeter polyhedron is said to be equiangular if all its dihedral angles are equal. Andreev's theorem implies that any equiangular hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedron either has all its dihedral angles equal to \(\pi/2\), or it is an ideal polyhedron with all its dihedral angles equal to \(\pi/3\). In the paper under review, the author studies finite-volume hyperbolic orbifolds obtained as quotients of hyperbolic \(3\)-space by groups generated by reflections in hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra. He obtains two-sided estimates for the volumes of equiangular hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra. For the case of ideal polyhedra in which the dihedral angles are equal to \(\pi/2\), the result is the following: Theorem: If \(\mathcal{P}\) is an ideal \(\pi/2\)-equiangular polyhedron with \(N\) vertices, then \[ (N-2)\cdot \frac{V_8}{4}\leq \text{vol}(\mathcal{P})\leq (N-4)\cdot \frac{V_8}{2}, \] where \(V_8\) is the volume of a regular ideal octahedron. Both inequalities are equalities when \(\mathcal{P}\) is the regular ideal hyperbolic octahedron. There is a sequence of ideal \(\pi/2\)-equiangular polyhedra \(\mathcal{P}_i\) with \(N_i\) vertices such that \(\text{vol}(\mathcal{P}_i)/N_i\) approaches \(V_8/2\) as \(i\to\infty\). The author obtains estimates of the same form for all the other kinds of equiangular hyperbolic polyhedra.