The Minimal Growth Rate of Cocompact Coxeter Groups in Hyperbolic 3-space

Kellerhals, Ruth ; Kolpakov, Alexander

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 66 (2014) no. 2, pp. 354-372

Résumé

Due to work of $\text{W}$ . Parry it is known that the growth rate of a hyperbolic Coxeter group acting cocompactly on ${{\mathbb{H}}^{3}}$ is a Salem number. This being the arithmetic situation, we prove that the simplex group (3,5,3) has the smallest growth rate among all cocompact hyperbolic Coxeter groups, and that it is, as such, unique. Our approach provides a different proof for the analog situation in ${{\text{H}}^{2}}$ where $\text{E}$ . Hironaka identified Lehmer's number as the minimal growth rate among all cocompact planar hyperbolic Coxeter groups and showed that it is (uniquely) achieved by the Coxeter triangle group (3,7).

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-2012-062-3

Mots-clés : 20F55, 22E40, 51F15, Hyperbolic Coxeter group, growth rate, Salem number

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