SALEM NUMBERS, SPECTRAL RADII AND GROWTH RATES OF HYPERBOLIC COXETER GROUPS

Coxeter Groups, Salem Numbers and the Hilbert Metric

Growth Series of Some Hyperbolic Graphs and Salem Numbers

Extending the analogous result of Cannon and Wagreich for the fundamental groups of surfaces, we show that, for the l-regular graphs Xl,m associated to regular tessellations of hyperbolic plane by m-gons, the denominators of the growth series (which are rational and were computed by Floyd and Plotnick [FP94]) are reciprocal Salem polynomials. As a consequence, the growth rates of these graphs a...

Salem numbers and growth series of some hyperbolic graphs

Extending the analogous result of Cannon andWagreich for the fundamental groups of surfaces, we show that, for the l-regular graphs Xl,m associated to regular tessellations of the hyperbolic plane by m-gons, the denominators of the growth series (which are rational and were computed by Floyd and Plotnick (Floyd and Plotnick, 1994)) are reciprocal Salem polynomials. As a consequence, the growth ...

Deformation of finite-volume hyperbolic Coxeter polyhedra, limiting growth rates and Pisot numbers

A connection between real poles of the growth functions for Coxeter groups acting on hyperbolic space of dimensions three and greater and algebraic integers is investigated. In particular, a certain geometric convergence of fundamental domains for cocompact hyperbolic Coxeter groups with finite-volume limiting polyhedron provides a relation between Salem numbers and Pisot numbers. Several examp...

Coxeter Groups and Hyperbolic Manifolds

In the last quarter of a century, 3-manifold topology has been revolutionized by Thurston and his school. This has generated a huge literature on hyperbolic 3-manifolds, building on the classical body of knowledge already existing in 2-dimensions. Balanced against this is a relative paucity of techniques and examples of hyperbolic n-manifolds for n ≥ 4. Recent work of Ratcliffe and Tschantz has...