Constructing thin subgroups commensurable with the figure-eight knot group

Ballas, Samuel¹ ; Long, Darren D¹

¹Department of Mathematics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3080, USA

Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 15 (2015) no. 5, pp. 3009-3022

Résumé

We find infinitely many lattices in SL(4,R), each of which contains thin subgroups commensurable with the figure-eight knot group.

Détail

DOI : 10.2140/agt.2015.15.3011

Classification : 57M60
Keywords: projective structures, figure-eight, thin groups, Zariski dense

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