Fundamental domains for proper affine actions of Coxeter groups in three dimensions
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Goldman, William M Digital Repository at the University of Maryland University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) Mathematics |
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22/06/2016
22/06/2016
2016
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Resumo |
We study proper actions of groups $G \cong \Z/2\Z \ast \Z/2\Z \ast \Z/2\Z$ on affine space of three real dimensions. Since $G$ is nonsolvable, work of Fried and Goldman implies that it preserves a Lorentzian metric. A subgroup $\Gamma < G$ of index two acts freely, and $\R^3/\Gamma$ is a Margulis spacetime associated to a hyperbolic surface $\Sigma$. When $\Sigma$ is convex cocompact, work of Danciger, Gu{\'e}ritaud, and Kassel shows that the action of $\Gamma$ admits a polyhedral fundamental domain bounded by crooked planes. We consider under what circumstances the action of $G$ also admits a crooked fundamental domain. We show that it is possible to construct actions of $G$ that fail to admit crooked fundamental domains exactly when the extended mapping class group of $\Sigma$ fails to act transitively on the top-dimensional simplices of the arc complex of $\Sigma$. We also provide explicit descriptions of the moduli space of $G$ actions that admit crooked fundamental domains. |
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doi:10.13016/M2WR22 |
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Palavras-Chave | #Mathematics #Affine Structures #Fundamental Domains #Margulis Spacetimes #Proper Actions |
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Dissertation |