Presentation for a hyperbolic group with 2-sphere boundary.

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I am looking for examples of hyperbolic groups that have boundary homeomorphic to the 2-sphere, $S^2$. I would like an explicit presentation of such a group so that I can draw its Cayley graph and play around with it. I know some examples are fundamental groups of hyperbolic 3-manifolds and hyperbolic Coxeter groups, but it is quite difficult to find explicit presentations.

If someone could also explain how to prove that its boundary is in fact the 2-sphere, that would be quite helpful. Yes, this is related to Cannon's Conjecture.

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The easiest way to explicitly draw the Cayley graph is to look at fundamental domains and take the dual graph.

Take a right-angled dodecahedron; you can think of its dual as a vertex with 12 edges going out. Attach a new right-angled dodecahedron to each of those faces. So far the graph we have is (part of) a valence-12 tree.

In the next step, we add on more right-angled dodecahedra, but now we 'complete the right-angles', so a single fundamental domain gets attached to two adjacent faces at once. This creates four-cycles in the graph. Continuing on in this way will easily get you the Cayley graph. This is by far the simplest hyperbolic Cayley graph with a 2-sphere boundary that I know of.