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Fundamental polyhedra of projective elementary groups

Group Theory 2022-08-02 v2

Abstract

For OO an imaginary quadratic ring, we compute a fundamental polyhedron of PE2(O)\text{PE}_2(O), the projective elementary subgroup of PSL2(O)\text{PSL}_2(O). This allows for new, simplified proofs of theorems of Cohn, Nica, Fine, and Frohman. Namely, we obtain a presentation for PE2(O)\text{PE}_2(O), show that it has infinite-index and is its own normalizer in PSL2(O)\text{PSL}_2(O), and split PSL2(O)\text{PSL}_2(O) into a free product with amalgamation that has PE2(O)\text{PE}_2(O) as one of its factors.

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@article{arxiv.2204.04790,
  title  = {Fundamental polyhedra of projective elementary groups},
  author = {Daniel E. Martin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.04790},
  year   = {2022}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure, citations added in version 2

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