Configuration spaces of points on the circle and hyperbolic Dehn fillings. II (Q1597470)

For any integer \(n \geq 5\) let \(X(n)\) be the space of configurations of \(n\) distinct points of the real projective line \(RP^1\) up to projective automorphisms. Let the group PGL(2,R) act on \({(RP^1)}^n\) diagonally and set \(D = \{(x_1,\dots,x_n) \in {(RP^1)}^n\mid x_i = x_j\) for some \(i \neq j\}\). Then \(X(n)\) can be identified with the orbit space \(({(RP^1)}^n \smallsetminus D)/\text{PGL(2,R)}\). By considering the real slice of Thurston's complex hyperbolization [\textit{W. P. Thurston}, Shapes of polyhedra and triangulations of the sphere, Geom. Topol. Monogr. 1, 511-549 (1998; Zbl 0931.57010)], the authors established in the first part of their work [Topology 38, No. 3, 497-516 (1999; Zbl 0927.57021)] a real hyperbolic polyhedral structure \(HP\) on each of the connected components of \(X(n)\) via the Schwarz-Christoffel map, where the boundary of each polyhedron is encoded by a degenerate configuration. Using this construction, the space \(X(n)\) can be embedded as an open dense subset in some connected real hyperbolic cone-manifold. An alternative approach for this embedding has been studied by \textit{M. Kapovich} and \textit{J. Millson} [J. Differ. Geom 42, No. 1, 133-164 (1995; Zbl 0847.51026)]. In the cases \(n=5,6\) the authors related in Part I [loc. cit.] their geometrization to the existing deformation theory of hyperbolic structures by interpreting a variation of the angles of \(HP\) as a deformation of the hyperbolic cone structure. The authors proved that for \(n=5,6\) this interpretation is a local embedding around equal angles. In the paper under review the authors show that this local embedding is even globally injective.