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Two series of polyhedral fundamental domains for Lorentz bi-quotients

Differential Geometry 2021-04-02 v2

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to give two infinite series of examples of Lorentz space forms that can be obtained from Lorentz polyhedra by identification of faces. These Lorentz space forms are bi-quotients of the form Γ1\G/Γ2\Gamma_1\backslash G/\Gamma_2, where G=SU(1,1)~SL(2,R)~G=\widetilde{\operatorname{SU}(1,1)}\cong\widetilde{\operatorname{SL}(2,{\mathbb R})} is a simply connected Lie group with the Lorentz metric given by the Killing form, Γ1\Gamma_1 and Γ2\Gamma_2 are discrete subgroups of GG and Γ2\Gamma_2 is cyclic. A construction of polyhedral fundamental domains for the action of Γ1×Γ2\Gamma_1\times\Gamma_2 on GG via (g,h)x=gxh1(g,h)\cdot x=gxh^{-1} was given in the earlier work of the second author. In this paper we give an explicit description of the fundamental domains obtained by this construction for two infinite series of groups. These results are connected to singularity theory as the bi-quotients Γ1\G/Γ2\Gamma_1\backslash G/\Gamma_2 appear as links of certain quasi-homogeneous Q\mathbb Q-Gorenstein surface singularities, i.e.\ the intersections of the singular variety with sufficiently small spheres around the isolated singular point.

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@article{arxiv.1903.01011,
  title  = {Two series of polyhedral fundamental domains for Lorentz bi-quotients},
  author = {Nasser Bin Turki and Anna Pratoussevitch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01011},
  year   = {2021}
}

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16 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables of figures