Small hyperbolic polyhedra (Q411916)

The structures of the 3-dimensional hyperbolic polyhedral orbifolds have been widely investigated by several authors (E. M. Andreev, W. P. Thurston, J. G. Ratcliffe, W. D. Dunbar, E. Molnár) in geometry. In this paper the author contributes to this topic with some nice results. He classifies the 3-dimensional hyperbolic polyhedral orbifolds that contain no embedded essential 2-suborbifolds, up to decomposition along embedded hyperbolic triangle orbifolds (relating to the so-called small hyperbolic polyhedra). The author determines, as the generalization of a result of \textit{C. Maclachlan} [Pac. J. Math. 176, No. 1, 195--203 (1996; Zbl 0865.20031)] those hyperbolic polyhedral orbifolds that contain an immersed singular hyperbolic triangular 2-orbifold. Moreover, he also proves that any orientable hyperbolic triangle subgroup of a nonorientable 3-dimensional hyperbolic reflection group \(G\) arises as a subgroup of index two of a nonorientable hyperbolic triangle reflection subgroup of \(G\).