On 2-Generator Subgroups of SO(3)

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-99-02397-1MaRDI QIDQ4257590zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Charles Radin, Lorenzo Sadun

Publication date 31 August 1999

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9706203

zbMATH Keywords

group amalgamsLie groupsrotationssubgroup generation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry (51F25) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22)

Abstract: We classify all subgroups of $SO(3)$ that are generated by two elements, each a rotation of finite order, about axes separated by an angle that is a rational multiple of $pi$. In all cases we give a presentation of the subgroup. In most cases the subgroup is the free product, or the amalgamated free product, of cyclic groups or dihedral groups. The relations between the generators are all simple consequences of standard facts about rotations by $pi$ and $pi/2$. Embedded in the subgroups are explicit free groups on 2 generators, as used in the Banach-Tarski paradox.

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