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The classification of rank 3 reflective hyperbolic lattices over $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{2}]$

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2016

ALICE MARK*
Affiliation:
School of Mathamatical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 871804, Tempe, AZ 85287-1804, U.S.A.

Abstract

There are 432 strongly squarefree symmetric bilinear forms of signature (2, 1) defined over $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{2}]$ whose integral isometry groups are generated up to finite index by finitely many reflections. We adapted Allcock's method (based on Nikulin's) of analysis for the 2-dimensional Weyl chamber to the real quadratic setting, and used it to produce a finite list of quadratic forms which contains all of the ones of interest to us as a sub-list. The standard method for determining whether a hyperbolic reflection group is generated up to finite index by reflections is an algorithm of Vinberg. However, for a large number of our quadratic forms the computation time required by Vinberg's algorithm was too long. We invented some alternatives, which we present here.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2016 

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