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Quadratic Integers and Coxeter Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Norman W. Johnson  and
Asia Ivić Weiss
Norman W. Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts 02766, USA
Asia Ivić Weiss
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3
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Matrices whose entries belong to certain rings of algebraic integers can be associated with discrete groups of transformations of inversive $n$-space or hyperbolic $(n+1)-\text{space}\,{{\text{H}}^{n+1}}$. For small $n$, these may be Coxeter groups, generated by reflections, or certain subgroups whose generators include direct isometries of ${{\text{H}}^{n+1}}$. We show how linear fractional transformations over rings of rational and (real or imaginary) quadratic integers are related to the symmetry groups of regular tilings of the hyperbolic plane or 3-space. New light is shed on the properties of the rational modular group $\text{PS}{{\text{L}}_{2}}(\mathbb{Z})$, the Gaussian modular (Picard) group $\text{PS}{{\text{L}}_{2}}(\mathbb{Z}[i])$, and the Eisenstein modular group $\text{PS}{{\text{L}}_{2}}(\mathbb{Z}\left[ \omega \right])$.

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Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 51 , Issue 6 , 01 December 1999 , pp. 1307 - 1336
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1999

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