Hyperbolic Kac-Moody Weyl groups, billiard tables and actions of lattices on buildings. (Q418903)

Let \(G\) be a locally compact Kac-Moody group associated to a symmetrizable rank 3 Kac-Moody algebra of noncompact hyperbolic type. It is known that the fundamental chambers of Weyl groups of certain algebras in this class serve as billiard tables for a physical phenomenon known as cosmological billiards. The authors discuss the classification of Weyl groups in this class, determine their group presentations, and exhibit their tessellations on the Poincaré disk. They show that each Weyl group \(W\) is an amalgam of finite Coxeter groups by constructing an action of \(W\) on a tree \(\mathcal Y\). It follows that among all Kac-Moody Weyl groups of affine or hyperbolic type, those of rank 2 and of rank 3 noncompact hyperbolic type are the only ones that have nontrivial amalgam decompositions. They show that the degrees of \(\mathcal Y\) can be determined from the Dynkin diagram of \(G\). They construct a bihomogeneous bipartite tree \(\mathcal X\) embedded in the Tits building of \(G\), a rank 3 locally finite hyperbolic building, on which the full Kac-Moody group \(G\) acts, and they determine the degrees of \(\mathcal X\). They show that there is a nonuniform lattice subgroup of \(G\) which acts properly on this tree, that is, with finite vertex stabilizers.