On the commensurability of hyperbolic Coxeter groups (Q6185954): Difference between revisions

In this paper, the author studies the problem of commensurability of hyperbolic Coxeter groups of finite covolume. These are discrete subgroups of \(\mathrm{Isom}(\mathbb{H}_{n})\) generated by finitely many reflections in the bounding hyperplanes of Coxeter polyhedra, which are polyhedra whose angles are integral submultiples of \(\pi\). In [\textit{È. B. Vinberg}, Math. USSR Sb. 1, 429--444 (1968; Zbl 0166.16303)], a field of cycles (Vinberg field) and a quadratic form (Vinberg form) are associated to every hyperbolic Coxeter group. The main result in the paper under review is the following necessary conditions for commensurability: if \(\Gamma_{1}\) and \(\Gamma_{2}\) are two commensurable cofinite hyperbolic Coxeter groups acting on \(\mathbb{H}^{n}\), then their Vinberg fields coincide and the two associated Vinberg forms are similar over this field. Moreover, the author provides two new sets of generators for the field of definition in case of quasi-arithmetic hyperbolic Coxeter groups.