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Reflection length at infinity in hyperbolic reflection groups

  • Marco Lotz (University of Magdeburg)
Hörsaal 16 Universität Leipzig (Leipzig)

Abstract

In a discrete group generated by hyperplane reflections in the n-dimensional hyperbolic space, the reflection length of an element is the minimal number of hyperplane reflections in the group that suffices to factor the element. For a Coxeter group that arises in this way and does not split into a direct product of spherical and affine reflection groups, the reflection length is unbounded. The action of the Coxeter group induces a tessellation of the hyperbolic space. After fixing a fundamental domain, there exists a bijection between the tiles and the group elements.

We describe certain points in the visual boundary of the n-dimensional hyperbolic space for which every neighbourhood contains tiles of every reflection length. To prove this, we show that two disjoint hyperplanes in the n-dimensional hyperbolic space without common boundary points have a unique common perpendicular.

conference
4/28/23 4/28/23

Dresden Leipzig Seminar Algebra and Geometry

Universität Leipzig Hörsaal 16

Rainer Sinn

Freie Universität Berlin Contact via Mail

Rainer Sinn

Freie Universität Berlin