Rank one lattices whose parabolic isometries have no rotational part
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Abstract:
We prove a result on certain finite index subgroups of rank one lattices which is motivated by cusp closing constructions.References
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Additional Information
- Christoph Hummel
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South $33^{\text {rd}}$ Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
- Address at time of publication: Departement Mathematik, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
- Email: hummelc@math.upenn.edu, hummel@math.ethz.ch
- Received by editor(s): December 7, 1996
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 22, 1997
- Additional Notes: The author is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
- © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998), 2453-2458
- MSC (1991): Primary 53C35; Secondary 22E40, 22E25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-98-04289-0
- MathSciNet review: 1443390
Dedicated: (Communicated by Christopher Croke)