Free groups in quaternion algebras.

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2012.12.025MaRDI QIDQ376041zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. C. Souza Filho, S. O. Juriaans

Publication date 1 November 2013

Published in Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1977, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021869313000252

zbMATH Keywords

free groupsgroup ringsgroups of unitshyperbolic groupsgeneralized quaternion algebrasfree semigroupsMöbius transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quaternion and other division algebras: arithmetic, zeta functions (11R52) Group rings (16S34) Free nonabelian groups (20E05) Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Units and factorization (11R27) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems (20M05)

Abstract: In cite{jpsf} we constructed pairs of units $u,v$ in $$-orders of a quaternion algebra over $Q(sqrt-d)$, $dequiv7pmod8$ positive and square free, such that $<u^n,v^n>$ is free for some $ninmathbbN$. Here we extend this result to any imaginary quadratic extension of $mathbbQ$, thus including matrix algebras. More precisely, we show that $<u^n,v^n>$ is a free group for all $ngeq1$ and $d>2$ and for $d=2$ and all $ngeq2$. The units we use arise from Pell's and Gauss' equations. A criterion for a pair of homeomorphisms to generate a free semigroup is also established and used to prove that two certain units generate a free semigroup but that, in this case, the Ping-Pong Lemma can not be applied to show that the group they generate is free.

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