Definition
Arithmetic Kleinian group
A Kleinian group commensurable with a projective norm-one group from a quaternion order with one complex place.
A Kleinian group is arithmetic if it is commensurable up to conjugacy in with the projective image of , for data satisfying all of the following:
- is a number field with exactly one conjugate pair of nonreal complex embeddings;
- is a quaternion algebra over , ramified at every real embedding;
- is an order and is its norm-one group;
- comes from a splitting at one of the nonreal embeddings .
“One complex place” means one conjugate pair, not one individual embedding. The finite-index commensurability requirement is essential; an arbitrary infinite-index subgroup of such a group need not be arithmetic in this sense.
Geometric consequence
These groups have finite hyperbolic covolume. The real-place ramification condition makes the other archimedean norm-one factors compact. Bianchi groups arise from the split algebra over an imaginary quadratic field.
References
- F. W. Gehring, C. Maclachlan, G. J. Martin, and A. W. Reid, Arithmeticity, discreteness and volume, Transactions of the AMS 349 (1997). Author-hosted paper, §4, definition on p. 3618.