Eigenvalue fields of hyperbolic orbifolds

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07544-6MaRDI QIDQ4813664zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alan W. Reid, Emily Hamilton

Publication date 13 August 2004

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07544-6

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalue fieldshyperbolic orbifoldshyperbolic spacesnon-elementary subgroupstrace fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10)

Review text

The group of isometries \(\text{Isom}(H^n)\) of hyperbolic \(n\)-space can be identified with \(O_0(n,1,\mathbb{R})\), and a subgroup \(\Gamma\) of \(O_0(n,1,\mathbb{R})\) is non-elementary if it has more than 2 limit points for its action on the sphere at infinity. Let \(\mathbb{Q}(\text{ev\,}\Gamma)\) denote the field obtained by adjoining the eigenvalues of \(\Gamma\) to \(\mathbb{Q}\), and \(\mathbb{Q}(\text{tr\,}\Gamma)\) the field obtained by adjoining the traces of the elements of \(\Gamma\) to \(\mathbb{Q}\). In the paper under review, the authors prove that if \(\Gamma\) is a non-elementary subgroup of \(O_0(n,1,\mathbb{R})\) with \(n\geq 2\), then \(\mathbb{Q}(\text{ev\,}\Gamma)\) has infinite degree over \(\mathbb{Q}\), and deduce as a corollary that the same result holds for the fundamental group of a finite volume hyperbolic \(n\)-orbifold, with \(n\geq 3\). The corollary contrasts with the fact that for such \(\Gamma\), the field \(\mathbb{Q}(\text{tr\,}\Gamma)\) has finite degree over \(\mathbb{Q}\) by Mostow rigidity.

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