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Classification of Fuchsian groups with torsion

Group Theory 2026-06-30 v1 Dynamical Systems Logic

Abstract

In their recent paper, Bergfalk and Smythe prove that the isometry equivalence relation on hyperbolic surfaces with finitely-generated fundamental group is concretely classifiable, and ask whether the same result holds true for 2-dimensional hyperbolic orbifolds, or equivalently, whether the action of \PSL2(R)\PSL_2(\mathbb{R}) on its space of finitely-generated discrete subgroups is concretely classifiable. In this note we answer this question in the affirmative. We then use the result to prove that a nonsingular ergodic \PSL2(R)\PSL_2(\mathbb{R})-space with nonelementary finitely-generated stabilizers is homogeneous, in similarity with a result of Stuck-Zimmer for lattices in semisimple lie groups. The main ingredients of our proof are Selberg's lemma and a result of Greenberg on commensurators.

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@article{arxiv.2606.31459,
  title  = {Classification of Fuchsian groups with torsion},
  author = {George Peterzil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.31459},
  year   = {2026}
}

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