Generators for a complex hyperbolic braid group

DOI10.2140/GT.2018.22.3435zbMATH Open1447.57022arXiv1702.05707OpenAlexW3098705036MaRDI QIDQ1785087FDOQ1785087

Authors: Daniel Allcock, Tathagata Basak 

Publication date: 28 September 2018

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give generators for a certain complex hyperbolic braid group. That is, we remove a hyperplane arrangement from complex hyperbolic $13$-space, take the quotient of the remaining space by a discrete group, and find generators for the orbifold fundamental group of the quotient. These generators have the most natural form: loops corresponding to the hyperplanes which come nearest the basepoint. Our results support the conjecture that motivated this study, the "monstrous proposal", which posits a relationship between this braid group and the monster finite simple group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05707

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zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupArtin groupsLeech latticehyperplane arrangementsmonsterpresentationsbraid grouplattices in \(\mathrm{PU}(1,n)\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Relations with arrangements of hyperplanes (32S22)

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