The three smallest compact arithmetic hyperbolic 5-orbifolds

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Abstract: We determine the three hyperbolic 5-orbifolds of smallest volume among compact arithmetic orbifolds, and we identify their fundamental groups with hyperbolic Coxeter groups. This gives two different ways to compute the volume of these orbifolds.


For odd \(n\geq 3\), the (orientable) compact arithmetic hyperbolic \(n\)-orbifold of smallest possible volume has been determined by \textit{M. Belolipetsky} and \textit{V. Emery} [Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 105, No. 3, 541--570 (2012; Zbl 1327.22013)] using the Prasad volume formula. In the paper under review, the authors refine this method to determine the three arithmetic compact five-orbifolds of smallest volume, equivalently the three lattices in the isometry group \(\mathrm{SO}(1,5)^\circ\) of smallest covolume. These are the \(\Gamma_0'\) which was already known by M. Belolipetsky and V. Emery [loc. cit.], the unique subgroup \(\Gamma_1'\subset\Gamma_0'\) of index two and a third lattice \(\Gamma_2'\) which is not commensurable with \(\Gamma_0'\). This is the contents of Theorem 1 and Table 1 of the reviewed paper. The other main result of this paper is a realization of these orbifolds as quotients of hyperbolic five-space \({\mathbb H}^5\) by Coxeter groups. The proof of this is by constructing compact Coxeter polytopes \(P_0,P_2\) in \({\mathbb H}^5\) whose hyperbolic volumes approximate those of \(\Gamma_0'\backslash{\mathbb H}^5\), \(\Gamma_2'\backslash{\mathbb H}^5\), respectively, and applying Theorem 1 (the Coxeter groups coming from \(P_0,P_2\) were already known to be arithmetic). This is Theorem 2 and Table 2 of the paper.











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