Geodesic and translation ball packings generated by prismatic tessellations of the universal cover of \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb R)\) (Q2410812)

Denote by \(\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})}\) a universal cover of \(\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})\). Then, the packings of \(\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})}\) by geodesic balls and by so called tranlation balls are studied. The construction of packings is based on inscribing optimal balls into fundamental domains of some discrete subgroup of \(\operatorname{Isom}(\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})})\). A method to compute densities of the obtained packings is proposed. Also, some numerical results are given. The results are obtained using exact calculations on the hyperbolic projective model of \(\widetilde{\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})}\).