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Presentations for cusped arithmetic hyperbolic lattices

Group Theory 2023-03-22 v5 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We present a general method to compute a presentation for any cusped arithmetic hyperbolic lattice Γ\Gamma, applying a classical result of Macbeath to a suitable Γ\Gamma-invariant horoball cover of the corresponding symmetric space. As applications we compute presentations for the Picard modular groups PU(2,1,Od){\rm PU}(2,1,\mathcal{O}_d) for d=1,3,7d=1,3,7 and the quaternion hyperbolic lattice PU(2,1,H){\rm PU}(2,1,\mathcal{H}) with entries in the Hurwitz integer ring H\mathcal{H}. The implementation of the method for these groups is computer-assisted.

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@article{arxiv.1709.06691,
  title  = {Presentations for cusped arithmetic hyperbolic lattices},
  author = {Alice Mark and Julien Paupert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.06691},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

35 pages, 5 figures, 9 tables. V2: added relations to presentations for d=3 and 7. V3: corrected a typo in the presentation for the Hurwitz modular group. V4: Made changes in response to a referee report. Found new points, resulting in a few more relations being added to the presentation of the Hurwitz modular group. V5: Computer assisted verification of all presentations

R2 v1 2026-06-22T21:48:55.056Z