New complex- and quaternion-hyperbolic reflection groups

Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39) Other groups and their modular and automorphic forms (several variables) (11F55) Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Differential geometry of symmetric spaces (53C35)

Abstract: We consider the automorphism groups of various Lorentzian lattices over the Eisenstein, Gaussian, and Hurwitz integers, and in some of them we find reflection groups of finite index. These provide new finite-covolume reflection groups acting on complex and quaternionic hyperbolic spaces. Specifically, we provide groups acting on CH^n for all n<6 and n=7, and on HH^n for n=1,2,3 and 5. We compare our groups to those discovered by Deligne and Mostow and show that our largest examples are new. For many of these Lorentzian lattices we show that the entire symmetry group is generated by reflections, and obtain a description of the group in terms of the combinatorics of a lower-dimensional positive-definite lattice. The techniques needed for our lower-dimensional examples are elementary, but to construct our best examples we also need certain facts about the Leech lattice. We give a new and geometric proof of the classifications of selfdual Eisenstein lattices of dimension < 7 and of selfdual Hurwitz lattices of dimension < 5.

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\textit{E. B. Vinberg} researched a number of reflection groups that are subgroups of the symmetry groups of the Lorentzian lattice \(I_{n,1}\) over \(\mathbb{R}\) [Mat. Sbornik (N.S.) 87, 18-36 (1972); English translation in Math. USSR-Sb. 87, 17-35 (1972; Zbl 0244.20058)]. These groups act on the real hyperbolic space \(\mathbb{R} H^n\). In the paper under review the author carries out complex and quaternionic analogues of Vinberg's study. He researches the symmetry groups of Lorentzian lattices over each of the rings \(G,E,H\) where \(G, E,H\) denote the rings of Gaussian, Eisenstein, Hurwitz integers, i.e. \(G=\mathbb{Z} [i]\), \(E=\mathbb{Z} [-1+{1\over 2}\sqrt{-3}]\), \(H\) is the integral span of the units \(\pm 1,\pm i,\pm j.\pm k\) and \({1\over 2}(\pm 1,\pm i,\pm j,\pm k)\) in the field \(H\) of quaternions. A Lorentzian lattice is a free \(R\)-module equipped with a Hermitian form of signature \([-1,+1, \dots,+1]\). The symmetry groups provide a large number of discrete groups generated by reflections and acting with finite volume quotient on the hyperbolic spaces \(\mathbb{C} H^n\), \(HH^n\). The author constructs a total of 19 such groups. Some of them are known, some other ones are new. It should be pointed out that there are some applications on the moduli space of complex cubic surfaces.

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