{ "id": "0905.1318", "version": "v1", "published": "2009-05-08T19:44:48.000Z", "updated": "2009-05-08T19:44:48.000Z", "title": "Jørgensen Number and Arithmeticity", "authors": [ "Jason Callahan" ], "comment": "27 pages, 2 figures", "journal": "Conform. Geom. Dyn. 13 (2009), 160-186", "doi": "10.1090/S1088-4173-09-00196-9", "categories": [ "math.GT", "math.GR" ], "abstract": "A J{\\o}rgensen group is a non-elementary Kleinian group that can be generated by two elements for which equality holds in J{\\o}rgensen's Inequality. This paper shows that the only torsion-free J{\\o}rgensen group is the figure-eight knot group, identifies all non-cocompact arithmetic J{\\o}rgensen groups, and establishes a characterization of cocompact arithmetic J{\\o}rgensen groups. The paper also defines and computes the J{\\o}rgensen number of several non-cocompact Kleinian groups including some two-bridge knot and link groups.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2009-05-08T19:44:48.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "30F40", "57M05", "57M07", "57M25", "57M50" ], "keywords": [ "jørgensen number", "arithmeticity", "non-elementary kleinian group", "non-cocompact kleinian groups", "figure-eight knot group" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "AMS", "journal": "Conform. Geom. Dyn." }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 27, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }