Finite quotients of the Picard group and related hyperbolic tetrahedral and Bianchi groups

2001

There is an extensive literature on the fi{}nite index subgroups and the fi{}nite quotient groups of the Picard group $PSL\left(2,\mathbb{Z}\mid i\mid\right)$. The main result of the present paper is the classifi{}cation of all linear fractional groups $PSL\left(2,p^{m}\right)$ which occur as fi{}nite quotients of the Picard group. We classify also the fi{}nite quotients of linear fractional type of various related hyperbolic tetrahedral groups which uniformize the cusped orientable hyperbolic 3-orbifolds of minimal volumes. Also these cusped tetrahedral groups are of Bianchi type, that is of the form $PSL\left(2,\mathbb{Z}\mid\omega\mid\right)$ or $PGL\left(2,\mathbb{Z}\mid\omega\mid\right…