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New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 25 (2019), 145-155

  

D. D. Long and A. W. Reid

Sequences of high rank lattices with large systole containing a fixed genus surface group

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Published: January 20, 2019.
Keywords: systole, surface subgroup, lattice.
Subject: Primary: 22E40, Secondary: 20H25.

Abstract
In this paper we exhibit sequences of torsion-free lattices (both uniform and non-uniform) that have arbitrarily large systole, but all containing a thin surface subgroup of fixed genus.

Acknowledgements

Both authors supported in part by the NSF.


Author information

D. D. Long:
Department of Mathematics
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

long@math.ucsb.edu

A. W. Reid:
Department of Mathematics
Rice University
Houston, TX 77005, USA

alan.reid@rice.edu