Classification of hyperbolic manifolds and related orbifolds with charts up to two ideal simplices (Q2717153)

In this paper the authors determine the possible Dehn surgeries of ideal douple-simplex manifolds, which leads to compact hyperbolic orbifolds. This procedure was introduced by W. Thurston. Then they compute the corresponding volumina by Lobachevsky's method. At first their procedure is illustrated by surgeries of Gieseking manifolds and the related tilings in the hyperbolic space \(H^3\). Thus they get compact orbifolds.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn their illustration concerning the Gieseking manifolds in Section 2 the consequence for the volumina of the orbifolds is not correct in this paper as well as in their corresponding conference paper. For my request the authors informed me that they observed the mistake after having sent the manuscript for publication, later indicated by V. Petrov (Novosibirsk) as well. Namely, in Theorem 2.1 the complex parameter \(z(k)\) is erroneous: As expected, the volume of \(S(k)\) tends to that of the regular simplex if \(k\) tends to infinity. This new phenomenon by the mistake deserves a new publication; but for the following results of this paper no consequences arise.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn the next section they consider the three possible double-simplex manifolds with ideal vertices and their seven nonequivariant tilings in \(H^3\). Only in the special case of regular simplices they obtain a hyperbolic manifold which is noncompact. With the help of a computer program the authors have singled out the various cases. Then in some tables they give the parameters and volumina of the considered orbifolds, computed by Maple.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThis paper is on the one hand a survey, on the other hand it also represents interesting new results on such manifolds and their orbifolds. The authors realize their intuition to show interactions of algebra, analysis, and geometry via algorithmic and computational methods in a classical field of geometry.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0944.00034].