The trace field of hyperbolic gluings

Abstract

We determine the adjoint trace field of gluings of general hyperbolic manifolds. This provides a new method to prove the nonarithmeticity of gluings, which can be applied to the classical construction of Gromov and Piatetski-Shapiro (and generalizations) as well as certain gluings of pieces of commensurable arithmetic manifolds. As an application we give many new examples of nonarithmetic gluings and prove that the unique nonarithmetic Coxeter 5-simplex is not commensurable to any gluing of arithmetic pieces.

20 pages, 1 figure, 1 table