On the geometry of a Picard modular group (Q6062667)

Summary: We study geometric properties of the action on the complex hyperbolic plane \(H^2_{\mathbb{C}}\) of the Picard modular group \(\Gamma =\mathrm{PU}(2,1,\mathcal{O}_7)\), where \(\mathcal{O}_7\) denotes the ring of algebraic integers in \(\mathbb{Q}(i\sqrt{7})\). We list conjugacy classes of maximal finite subgroups in \(\Gamma\) and give an explicit description of the Fuchsian subgroups that occur as stabilizers of mirrors of complex reflections in \(\Gamma\). As an application, we describe an explicit torsion-free subgroup of index \(336\) in \(\Gamma\).