Winding and unwinding and essential intersections in H^3

DOI10.1090/CONM/696/14019MaRDI QIDQ4635325zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 16 April 2018

Published in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05039

hyperbolic geometry geodesics discrete groups Fuchsian groups intersections Schottky groups

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization (30F10) Conformal metrics (hyperbolic, Poincaré, distance functions) (30F45) Discontinuous groups and automorphic forms (11F99) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40)

Abstract: Let

G = l a n g l e A, B a n g l e

be a non-elementary two generator subgroup of the isometry group of

m a t h b b H^{2}

, the hyperbolic plane. If

G

is discrete and free and geometrically finite, its quotient is a pair of pants and in prior work we produced a formula for the number of essential self intersections (ESIs) of any primitive geodesic on the quotient. An ESI is a point where the geodesic has a self-intersection on a seam. Self-intersections of geodesics on arbitrary hyperbolic surfaces have recently been studied by Basmajian and Chas. Here we extend our results to two generator subgroups

G

of isometries of

m a t h b b H^{3}

, hyperbolic three-space, which are discrete, free and geometrically finite. We generalize our definition of ESIs and give a geometric interpretation of them in the quotient manifold. We show that they satisfy the same formulas.

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