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Hyperbolic manifolds that fiber algebraically up to dimension 8

Geometric Topology 2022-09-30 v5

Abstract

We construct some cusped finite-volume hyperbolic nn-manifolds MnM_n that fiber algebraically in all the dimensions 5n85\leq n \leq 8. That is, there is a surjective homomorphism π1(Mn)Z\pi_1(M_n) \to \mathbb Z with finitely generated kernel. The kernel is also finitely presented in the dimensions n=7,8n=7, 8, and this leads to the first examples of hyperbolic nn-manifolds M~n\widetilde M_n whose fundamental group is finitely presented but not of finite type. These nn-manifolds M~n\widetilde M_n have infinitely many cusps of maximal rank and hence infinite Betti number bn1b_{n-1}. They cover the finite-volume manifold MnM_n. We obtain these examples by assigning some appropriate colours and states to a family of right-angled hyperbolic polytopes P5,,P8P_5, \ldots, P_8, and then applying some arguments of Jankiewicz, Norin, Wise and Bestvina, Brady. We exploit in an essential way the remarkable properties of the Gosset polytopes dual to PnP_n, and the algebra of integral octonions for the crucial dimensions n=7,8n=7,8.

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@article{arxiv.2010.10200,
  title  = {Hyperbolic manifolds that fiber algebraically up to dimension 8},
  author = {Giovanni Italiano and Bruno Martelli and Matteo Migliorini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.10200},
  year   = {2022}
}

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40 pages, 21 figures, final version