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Counting commensurability classes of hyperbolic manifolds

Geometric Topology 2014-05-21 v3

Abstract

Gromov and Piatetski-Shapiro proved existence of finite volume non-arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds of any given dimension. In dimension four and higher, we show that there are about v^v such manifolds of volume at most v, considered up to commensurability. Since the number of arithmetic ones tends to be polynomial, almost all hyperbolic manifolds are non-arithmetic in an appropriate sense. Our method involves a geometric graph-of-spaces construction that relies on arithmetic properties of certain quadratic forms.

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@article{arxiv.1401.8003,
  title  = {Counting commensurability classes of hyperbolic manifolds},
  author = {Tsachik Gelander and Arie Levit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.8003},
  year   = {2014}
}

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version to appear in Geometric and Functional Analysis

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