Involution and commutator length for complex hyperbolic isometries

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1501812020zbMATH Open1404.32048arXiv1604.02159OpenAlexW2338973255MaRDI QIDQ1687992FDOQ1687992

Authors: Julien Paupert, Pierre Will 

Publication date: 4 January 2018

Published in: Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study decompositions of complex hyperbolic isometries as products of involutions. We show that PU(2,1) has involution length 4 and commutator length 1, and that for all $ngeqslant3$ PU($n$,1) has involution length at most 8.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02159

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zbMATH Keywords

involutions\(\mathrm{PU}(n,1)\)complex hyperbolic isometries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and Kobayashi hyperbolic manifolds (32Q45)

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