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Bounds on entries in Bianchi group generators

Number Theory 2022-05-31 v2

Abstract

Upper and lower bounds are given for the maximum Euclidean curvature among faces in Bianchi's fundamental polyhedron for PSL2(O)PSL_2(O) in the upper-half space model of hyperbolic space, where OO is an imaginary quadratic ring of integers with discriminant Δ\Delta. We prove these bounds are asymptotically within (logΔ)8.54(\log |\Delta|)^{8.54} of one another. This improves on the previous best upper-bound, which is roughly off by a factor between Δ2\Delta^2 and Δ5/2|\Delta|^{5/2} depending on the smallest prime dividing Δ\Delta. The gap between our upper and lower bounds is determined by an analog of Jacobsthal's function, introduced here for imaginary quadratic fields.

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@article{arxiv.2110.06973,
  title  = {Bounds on entries in Bianchi group generators},
  author = {Daniel E. Martin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.06973},
  year   = {2022}
}

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22 pages, 5 figures

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