Thin hyperbolic reflection groups

DOI10.1112/BLMS.70108MaRDI QIDQ6936541zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. A. Kolpakov

Publication date 29 August 2025

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/BLMS.70108

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic reflection groupLorentzian latticethin groupVinberg algorithmZariski dense subgroup

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15)

Review text

Let \(\mathbb{H}^d\) denote real hyperbolic \(d\)-space and \(\mathrm{Isom}(\mathbb{H}^d)\) its full isometry group. A hyperbolic reflection group is a discrete subgroup of \(\mathrm{Isom}(\mathbb{H}^d)\) generated by reflections in hyperplanes.\N\NThe article investigates Zariski dense discrete subgroups of \(\mathrm{Isom}(\mathbb{H}^d)\) that contain at least one reflection. It proves that such groups always include finitely generated Zariski dense reflection subgroups. If the full reflection subgroup has infinite index, one obtains an infinite ascending chain of nested reflection groups (Theorem~1.1).\N\NThese results are applied to arithmetic lattices from Lorentzian lattices over totally real fields. When the reflection subgroup is infinite but not reflective, subgroups generated by the first \(m\) reflections using the algorithm by \textit{E.~B.~Vinberg} [Math. USSR, Sb. 16, 17--35 (1972; Zbl~0252.20054)] form a thin chain (Theorem~1.3). Conversely, every thin hyperbolic reflection group embeds into one such subgroup for appropriate data (Theorem~1.4). Explicit examples illustrate both constructions.

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