Generating the Möbius group with involution conjugacy classes

Publication date 3 September 2013

Abstract: A {it

k

-involution} is an involution with a fixed point set of codimension

k

. The conjugacy class of such an involution, denoted

S_{k}

, generates

-the the group of isometries of hyperbolic

n

-space-if

k

is odd, and its orientation preserving subgroup if

k

is even. In this paper, we supply effective lower and upper bounds for the

S_{k}

word length of

if

k

is odd, and the

S_{k}

word length of

, if

k

is even. As a consequence, for a fixed codimension

k

the length of

with respect to

S_{k}

,

k

even, grows linearly with

n

with the same statement holding in the odd case. Moreover, the percentage of involution conjugacy classes for which

has length two approaches zero, as

n

approaches infinity.

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