Jørgensen Number and Arithmeticity

Abstract

A Jørgensen group is a non-elementary Kleinian group that can be generated by two elements for which equality holds in Jørgensen's Inequality. This paper shows that the only torsion-free Jørgensen group is the figure-eight knot group, identifies all non-cocompact arithmetic Jørgensen groups, and establishes a characterization of cocompact arithmetic Jørgensen groups. The paper also defines and computes the Jørgensen number of several non-cocompact Kleinian groups including some two-bridge knot and link groups.

27 pages, 2 figures