Discrete groups without finite quotients

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2018.08.013MaRDI QIDQ1790238zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tommaso Cremaschi, Juan Souto

Publication date 2 October 2018

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01047

zbMATH Keywords

geometric topologyKleinian groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Residual properties and generalizations; residually finite groups (20E26) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60)

Abstract: We construct an infinite discrete subgroup of the isometry group of $mathbb{H}^3$ with no finite quotients other than the trivial group.

Review text

The goal of this article is to present examples of discrete subgroups of \(\text{Isom}(\mathbb{H}^3)\) which fail to be residually finite. The first example states that there exist an infinite discrete subgroup \(G \subset \text{Isom}(\mathbb{H}^3)\) without finite non-trivial quotients. And in particular \(G\) is not residually finite. The second example states that there exists a torsion free discrete subgroup \(G \subset \text{Isom}(\mathbb{H}^3)\) which is not residually finite. The explicit descriptions of those groups are given and the stated properties are proven.

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