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Dirichlet-Ford domains and Double Dirichlet domains

Group Theory 2016-06-22 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We continue investigations started by Lakeland on Fuchsian and Kleinian groups which have a Dirichlet fundamental domain that also is a Ford domain in the upper half-space model of hyperbolic 22- and 33-space, or which have a Dirichlet domain with multiple centers. Such domains are called DF-domains and Double Dirichlet domains respectively. Making use of earlier obtained concrete formulas for the bisectors defining the Dirichlet domain of center i\HQ2i \in \HQ^2 or center j\HQ3j \in \HQ^3, we obtain a simple condition on the matrix entries of the side-pairing transformations of the fundamental domain of a Fuchsian or Kleinian group to be a DF-domain. Using the same methods, we also complement a result of Lakeland stating that a cofinite Fuchsian group has a DF domain (or a Dirichlet domain with multiple centers) if and only if it is an index 22 subgroup of the discrete group G of reflections in a hyperbolic polygon.

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@article{arxiv.1411.6813,
  title  = {Dirichlet-Ford domains and Double Dirichlet domains},
  author = {Eric Jespers and Stanley Orlando Juriaans and Ann Kiefer and Antonio Calixto Souza Filho and Antonio De Andrade E. Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.6813},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

new refereed version. We changed minor things, but added Lemma 4.7. 13 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1205.1127

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