An explicit fundamental domain for the Picard modular group in two complex dimensions

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Authors: Gábor Francsics, Peter D. Lax 

Publication date: 29 September 2005

Abstract: Our main goal in this paper is to construct the first explicit fundamental domain of the Picard modular group acting on the complex hyperbolic space $$. The complex hyperbolic space is a Hermitian symmetric space, its bounded realization is the unit ball in $$ equipped with the Bergman metric. The Picard modular group is a discontinuous holomorphic automorphism subgroup of $SU(2,1)$ with Gaussian integer entries. This fundamental domain has finite volume, one cusp, explicitly given boundary surfaces and an interesting symmetry.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40)

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