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On the discretness of states accessible via right-angled paths in hyperbolic space

Geometric Topology 2020-09-08 v2

Abstract

We consider the control problem where, given an orthonormal tangent frame in the hyperbolic plane or three dimensional hyperbolic space, one is allowed to transport the frame a fixed distance r>0r > 0 along the geodesic in direction of the first vector, or rotate it in place a right angle. We characterize the values of r>0r > 0 for which the set of orthonormal frames accessible using these transformations is discrete. In the hyperbolic plane this is equivalent to solving the discreteness problem for a particular one parameter family of two-generator subgroups of PSL2(R)PSL_2(\mathbb{R}). In the three dimensional case we solve this problem for a particular one parameter family of subgroups of the isometry group which have four generators.

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@article{arxiv.1911.06853,
  title  = {On the discretness of states accessible via right-angled paths in hyperbolic space},
  author = {Ernesto Garcia and Pablo Lessa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06853},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

A mistake in Lemma 11 was corrected