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Zariski-Closures of Linear Reflection Groups

Geometric Topology 2025-04-03 v1 Group Theory

Abstract

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a linear reflection group in the sense of Vinberg to be Zariski-dense in the ambient projective general linear group. As an application, we show that every irreducible right-angled Coxeter group of rank N3N \geq 3 virtually embeds Zariski-densely in SLn(Z)\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z}) for all nNn \geq N. This allows us to settle the existence of Zariski-dense surface subgroups of SLn(Z)\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z}) for all n3n \geq 3. Among the other applications are examples of Zariski-dense one-ended finitely generated subgroups of SLn(Z)\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{Z}) that are not finitely presented for all n6n \geq 6.

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@article{arxiv.2504.01494,
  title  = {Zariski-Closures of Linear Reflection Groups},
  author = {Jacques Audibert and Sami Douba and Gye-Seon Lee and Ludovic Marquis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.01494},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

34 pages, 4 figures. Comments welcome

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