Injectivity radii of hyperbolic polyhedra.

DOI10.2140/PJM.2001.197.369MaRDI QIDQ5937864zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Joseph D. Masters

Publication date 17 July 2001

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9812067

zbMATH Keywords

geodesichyperbolic polyhedrahyperbolic reflection groupinjectivity radius

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) Spherical and hyperbolic convexity (52A55)

Abstract: We define the injectivity radius of a Coxeter polyhedron in H^3 to be half the shortest translation length among hyperbolic/loxodromic elements in the orientation-preserving reflection group. We show that, for finite-volume polyhedra, this number is always less than 2.6339..., and for compact polyhedra it is always less than 2.1225... .

Review text

A convex polyhedron \(P\) in hyperbolic space \(H^n\) of finite volume is called a Coxeter polyhedron if its dihedral angles are integer submultiples of \(\pi\). For Coxeter polyhedra \(P\) the group \(\Gamma^+(P)\) of all orientation preserving isometries generated by reflections at faces of \(P\) is known to be a discrete transformation group \(\Gamma\). Thus, the orbit space \(H^n/\Gamma\) forms a hyperbolic orbifold \(M\), if \(\Gamma\) is torsionfree, and the injectivity radius of \(M\) can be defined as \(\sup\{a > 0\mid \text{every }x \in M\) is the center of an embedded ball of radius \(a\)

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