Covering Spaces of Arithmetic 3-Orbifolds

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNN036MaRDI QIDQ3515958zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marc Lackenby, D. D. Long, Alan W. Reid

Publication date 30 July 2008

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601677

zbMATH Keywords

arithmetic 3-manifoldHeegaard gradienthyperbolic 3-orbifoldlarge groupmod \(p\) homologyproperty tautower of covering spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

Abstract: Let G be an arithmetic Kleinian group, and let O be the associated hyperbolic 3-orbifold or 3-manifold. In this paper, we prove that, in many cases, G is large, which means that some finite index subgroup admits a surjective homomorphism onto a non-abelian free group. This has many consequences, including that O has infinite virtual first Betti number and G has super-exponential subgroup growth. Our first result, which forms the basis for the entire paper, is that G is commensurable with a lattice containing the Klein group of order 4. Our second result is that if G has a finite index subgroup with first Betti number at least 4, then G is large. This is known to hold for many arithmetic lattices. In particular, we show that it is always the case when G contains A_4, S_4 or A_5. Our third main result is that the Lubotzky-Sarnak conjecture and the geometrisation conjecture together imply that any arithmetic Kleinian group G is large. We also give a new 'elementary' proof that arithmetic Kleinian groups do not have the congruence subgroup property, which avoids the use of the Golod-Shafarevich inequality.

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