The Apollonian structure of Bianchi groups

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7111zbMATH Open1393.52013OpenAlexW2963902592MaRDI QIDQ4567883FDOQ4567883

Authors Katherine E. Stange

Publication date 20 June 2018

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.03121

zbMATH Keywords

thin groupsApollonian circle packingsBianchi groupimaginary quadratic fieldsprojective linear groupMöbius transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups acting on trees (20E08) Geometric group theory (20F65) Orthogonal and unitary groups in metric geometry (51F25) Classical groups (11E57) Quadratic extensions (11R11) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30) Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26)

Abstract: We study the orbit of $widehatmathbbR$ under the M"obius action of the Bianchi group $operatorname{PSL}_2(mathcal{O}_K)$ on $widehatmathbbC$, where $mathcal{O}_K$ is the ring of integers of an imaginary quadratic field $K$. The orbit $mathcal{S}_K$, called a Schmidt arrangement, is a geometric realisation, as an intricate circle packing, of the arithmetic of $K$. We give a simple geometric characterisation of certain subsets of $mathcal{S}_K$ generalizing Apollonian circle packings, and show that $mathcal{S}_K$, considered with orientations, is a disjoint union of all primitive integral such $K$-Apollonian packings. These packings are described by a new class of thin groups of arithmetic interest called $K$-Apollonian groups. We make a conjecture on the curvatures of these packings, generalizing the local-to-global conjecture for Apollonian circle packings.

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