Finite vertex cycles are vertex orbits #
Let σ pair the sides of a convex hyperbolic polygon P, and let Γ contain its side-pairing
maps, with distinct translates of the interior disjoint. Two finite vertices of P are
Γ-equivalent exactly when their indices lie in the same vertex cycle. More precisely, every
transformation identifying two finite vertices is one of the partial cycle products met during
one full turn about the first vertex.
Together with the vertex stabilizer theorem, this identifies the finite vertex cycles and their
cycle orders with the corresponding orbits and stabilizer orders in the coarse quotient. It does
not assert that every elliptic orbit meets a vertex: a self-paired side can also have an elliptic
midpoint. FiniteVertexCycle is the type of finite vertex cycles, counted vertex by vertex in
natCard_finiteVertexCycle_eq_sum, and EllipticVertexCycle restricts the finite cycles to those
with nonidentity cycle transformation. Neither discreteness nor local finiteness is needed for the
finite vertex result.
References #
- Alan Beardon, The Geometry of Discrete Groups, Chapter 9 (vertex cycles of a fundamental polygon).
- Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, Chapter 3 (side identifications and elliptic cycles).
Two finite vertices of a polygon with disjoint translated interiors represent the same group orbit exactly when they lie in the same side-pairing cycle.
On the finite vertices, the orbit relation is exactly the cycle relation. This also applies to cycles with trivial vertex stabilizer.
The same-cycle quotient of the finite vertices: the finite vertex cycles of σ, including
those whose cycle transformation is the identity. It is independent of the ambient subgroup and
of the fundamental-polygon hypotheses.
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The number of finite vertex cycles is the sum, over the finite vertices, of the inverse lengths of their cycles.
The same-cycle quotient of the finite vertices whose cycle transformation is nonidentity. It is independent of the ambient subgroup and of the fundamental-polygon hypotheses.
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Finite vertex cycles correspond bijectively to the coarse quotient orbits meeting a finite
vertex of P. The domain is Mathlib's same-cycle quotient, restricted to finite vertices; the
codomain is the image of those vertices under the ordinary orbit projection. In particular,
cycles of stabilizer order one are retained, and no assertion about elliptic side midpoints is
made.
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The finite-cycle bijection sends a vertex cycle to the actual orbit of its vertex.