Bounds on Entries in Bianchi Group Generators

Abstract: Upper and lower bounds are given for the maximum Euclidean curvature among faces in Bianchi's fundamental polyhedron for

P S L_{2} (O)

in the upper-half space model of hyperbolic space, where

O

is an imaginary quadratic ring of integers with discriminant

D e l t a

. We prove these bounds are asymptotically within

(l o g | D e l t a |)^{8.54}

of one another. This improves on the previous best upper-bound, which is roughly off by a factor between

D e l t a^{2}

and

| D e l t a |^{5 / 2}

depending on the smallest prime dividing

D e l t a

. The gap between our upper and lower bounds is determined by an analog of Jacobsthal's function, introduced here for imaginary quadratic fields.

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