Absolute profinite rigidity and hyperbolic geometry

摘要

We construct arithmetic Kleinian groups that are profinitely rigid in the absolute sense: each is distinguished from all other finitely generated, residually finite groups by its set of finite quotients. The Bianchi group PSL(2, Zomega) with omega(2) + omega + 1 = 0 is rigid in this sense. Other examples include the non-uniform lattice of minimal co-volume in PSL(2, C) and the fundamental group of the Weeks manifold (the closed hyperbolic 3-manifold of minimal volume).