Ideal polyhedral surfaces in Fuchsian manifolds (Q2181577)

One of the main results of the paper under review is a new proof of the following theorem. Theorem. For every cusp metric \(d\) on \(S_{g,n}\), \(g>1\), \(n>0\), there exists a Fuchsian manifold \(F\) and an ideal Fuchsian polyhedron \(P \subset F\) such that \((S_{g,n},d)\) is isometric to the upper boundary of \(P\). Moreover, \(F\) and \(P\) are unique up to isometry. Here, \(S_{g,n}\) is a surface of genus \(g\) with \(n\) punctures. Another main result is an alternative proof of the existence and uniqueness of a hyperbolic polyhedral metric with prescribed curvature in a given conformal class. That is, the author reformulates the following theorem in terms of Fuchsian polyhedra with singularities. Theorem. Let \(d\) be a polyhedral hyperbolic metric on \(S_{g,n}\) and \(\kappa':B \rightarrow (-\infty,2\pi)\) be a function satisfying \[ \Sigma_{B_i \in B}\kappa'(B_i)>2\pi(2-2g). \] Then there exists a unique metric \(d'\) discretely conformally equivalent to \(d\) such that \(\kappa_{d'}(B_i)=\kappa'(B_i)\) for all \(B_i \in B\). The author also gives full history, related work and perspectives on this field, making the article very readable.