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Reflection length at infinity in hyperbolic reflection groups

Group Theory 2023-03-17 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

In a discrete group generated by hyperplane reflections in the nn-dimensional hyperbolic space, the reflection length of an element is the minimal number of hyperplane reflections in the group that suffices to factor the element. For a Coxeter group that arises in this way and does not split into a direct product of spherical and affine reflection groups, the reflection length is unbounded. The action of the Coxeter group induces a tessellation of the hyperbolic space. After fixing a fundamental domain, there exists a bijection between the tiles and the group elements. We describe certain points in the visual boundary of the nn-dimensional hyperbolic space for which every neighbourhood contains tiles of every reflection length. To prove this, we show that two disjoint hyperplanes in the nn-dimensional hyperbolic space without common boundary points have a unique common perpendicular.

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@article{arxiv.2303.09300,
  title  = {Reflection length at infinity in hyperbolic reflection groups},
  author = {Marco Lotz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.09300},
  year   = {2023}
}

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18 pages, 4 figures. Comments are welcome!