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Normalized volume spectra of right-angled hyperbolic polyhedra

Geometric Topology 2026-05-19 v1

Abstract

Let a three-dimensional hyperbolic polyhedron P\mathcal P have finite volume vol(P)\mathrm{vol}(\mathcal P) and a finite number of vertices ver(P)\mathrm{ver}(\mathcal P). We call its normalized volume the quantity ω(P)=vol(P)/ver(P)\omega(\mathcal P) = \mathrm{vol}(\mathcal P)/ \mathrm{ver}(\mathcal P). If R\mathcal{R} is some set of hyperbolic polyhedra, then we assign to it the set of normalized volumes Ω(R)={ω(P)PR}\Omega (\mathcal R) = \{ \omega(\mathcal P) \mid \mathcal P \in \mathcal R \}, which we call the spectrum of normalized volumes of the set R\mathcal R. In the paper we consider the set Rcomp\mathcal R_{comp} of compact right-angled hyperbolic polyhedra and the set Rideal\mathcal R_{ideal} of ideal right-angled hyperbolic polyhedra. We prove that the spectrum Ω(Rideal)\Omega (\mathcal R_{ideal}) belongs to the interval [16voct,12voct]\left[\frac{1}{6} v_{\mathrm{oct}}, \frac{1}{2} v_{\mathrm{oct}} \right] and both bounds are sharp. Moreover, the spectrum is discrete in [16voct,14voct)\left[ \frac{1}{6} v_{\mathrm{oct}}, \frac{1}{4} v_{\mathrm{oct}} \right) and everywhere dense in [14voct,12voct]\left[ \frac{1}{4} v_{\mathrm{oct}}, \frac{1}{2} v_{\mathrm{oct}} \right], where voctv_{\mathrm{oct}} is the volume of the regular ideal hyperbolic octahedron. We also establish that the spectrum Ω(Rcomp)\Omega (\mathcal R_{comp}) belongs to the interval [5192voct,58vtet]\left[ \frac{5}{192} v_{\mathrm{oct}}, \frac{5}{8} v_{\mathrm{tet}} \right] and the upper bound is sharp. Moreover, on the interval [5192voct,132voct)\left[ \frac{5}{192} v_{\mathrm{oct}}, \frac{1}{32} v_{\mathrm{oct}} \right) the spectrum is discrete, while on the interval [516vtet,58vtet]\left[ \frac{5}{16} v_{\mathrm{tet}}, \frac{5}{8} v_{\mathrm{tet}} \right] it is everywhere dense, where vtetv_{\mathrm{tet}} is the volume of the regular ideal hyperbolic tetrahedron.

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@article{arxiv.2605.18558,
  title  = {Normalized volume spectra of right-angled hyperbolic polyhedra},
  author = {A. Egorov and A. Vesnin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.18558},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

20 pages, 10 figues

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