Conjugacy Classes of Elliptic Elements in the Picard Group

Authors: NİHAL YILMAZ, İSMAİL NACİ CANGÜL

Abstract: The Picard group $\mathbf{P}$ is a discrete subgroup of $PSL(2,\Bbb{C})$ with Gaussian integer coefficients. Here it is shown that the total number of conjugacy classes of elliptic elements of order 2 and 3 in $\mathbf{P}$, which is given as seven by B. Fine $\left[ 3\right] $, can actually be reduced to four and using this, the conditions for the maximal Fuchsian subgroups of $\mathbf{P}$ to have elliptic elements of orders 2 and 3 are found.

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