Triangle subgroups of hyperbolic tetrahedral groups
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Triangle subgroups of hyperbolic tetrahedral groups
zbMATH Open document ID: 0865.20031
published in: Pacific Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 1996-12-15T00:00:00Z
review text: There are nine compact tetrahedra in hyperbolic 3-space whose dihedral angles are submultiples of \(\pi\) so that the group generated by reflections in the faces of the tetrahedron is a discrete subgroup of the isometry group, \(\text{Isom}(\mathbb{H}^3)\). The centralizer of a reflection in one of the faces of the tetrahedron is then a discrete subgroup of the isometry group of the 2-dimensional hyperbolic plane on which that face lies. Thus if we restrict to orientation-preserving subgroups in both the ambient group and the subgroup, these tetrahedral Kleinian groups will contain Fuchsian subgroups. For only one of the tetrahedra and one of the faces of that tetrahedron, the Fuchsian subgroup is a triangle group [\textit{T. Baskan} and \textit{A. M. Macbeath}, Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 92, 79-91 (1982; Zbl 0487.20034)]. Eight of the tetrahedral groups \(\Gamma\) are arithmetic and in these cases any non-elementary Fuchsian subgroup is also arithmetic. A complete list of arithmetic Fuchsian triangle groups \(G\) is known [\textit{K. Takeuchi}, J. Math. Soc. Japan 29, 91-106 (1977; Zbl 0344.20035)]. Using the arithmetic data from both \(\Gamma\) and \(G\), all pairs \((\Gamma,G)\) where \(G\subset\Gamma\) are determined and there are several such pairs in addition to the one ``visible'' on a face as described above.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20H15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51F15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20H10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51M10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 20E07
zbMATH DE Number: 950209
zbMATH Keywords: groups generated by reflections
zbMATH Keywords: discrete subgroups
zbMATH Keywords: isometry groups
zbMATH Keywords: orientation-preserving subgroups
zbMATH Keywords: tetrahedral Kleinian groups
zbMATH Keywords: Fuchsian subgroups
zbMATH Keywords: arithmetic Fuchsian triangle groups
author: C. Maclachlan
reviewed by: C. Maclachlan
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: pjm.1996.176.195
OpenAlex ID: W1850558801
DOI: 10.2140/PJM.1996.176.195
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