The 334-triangle graph of SL₃(Z)

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2022.15.537MaRDI QIDQ2109103zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michaela A. Polley, Eric S. Egge

Publication date 20 December 2022

Published in Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08908

zbMATH Keywords

triangle groupspecial linear groupgenerators and relationschromatic number of a graphthin group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06)

Abstract: Long, Reid, and Thistlewaite have shown that some groups generated by representations of the $Delta334$ triangle group in $S{L}_3(mathbbZ)$ are thin, while the status of others is unknown. In this paper we take a new approach: for each group we introduce a new graph that captures information about representations of $Delta334$ in the group. We provide examples of our graph for a variety of groups, and we use information about the graph for $S{L}_3(mathbbZ/2mathbbZ)$ to show that the chromatic number of the graph for $S{L}_3(mathbbZ)$ is at most eight. By generating a portion of the graph for $S{L}_3(mathbbZ)$ we show its chromatic number is at least four; we conjecture it is equal to four.

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