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Orders of elements in finite quotients of Kleinian groups

Peter B. Shalen

Vol. 256 (2012), No. 1, 211–234
Abstract

A positive integer m will be called a finitistic order for an element γ of a group Γ if there exist a finite group G and a homomorphism h : Γ G such that h(γ) has order m in G. It is shown that up to conjugacy, all but finitely many elements of a given finitely generated, torsion-free Kleinian group admit a given integer m > 2 as a finitistic order.

Keywords
3-manifold, group, finite quotient, order, finitistic order, number field
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 20F99, 57M50
Secondary: 11R27
Milestones
Received: 8 May 2011
Revised: 15 November 2011
Accepted: 21 November 2011
Published: 6 May 2012
Authors
Peter B. Shalen
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science (M/C 249)
University of Illinois at Chicago
851 S. Morgan St.
Chicago IL 60607-7045
United States