The curious moduli spaces of unmarked Kleinian surface group (Q2879624)

The moduli spaces of closed hyperbolic surfaces have been studied extensively by many mathematicians from various viewpoints. In dimension 3, deformation spaces of hyperbolic 3-manifolds, which correspond to Teichmüller spaces for closed surfaces, have drawn much attention in the theory of Kleinian groups. In contrast, the moduli spaces of (unmarked) hyperbolic 3-manifolds have been little studied. This paper constitutes pioneering work on this topic.NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors consider the moduli space of hyperbolic 3-manifolds homotopy equivalent to a closed surface \(S\) endowed with the topology coming from the algebraic topology of the deformation space, which they denote by \(A\mathcal I(S)\). They show that there are non-closed points in \(A\mathcal I(S)\), and that although the geometrically finite points are closed, the subset of geometrically finite points is not Hausdorff. They also show that one can consider a compactification of \(A\mathcal I(S)\) analogous to the Mumford-Deligne compactification \(\overline{\mathcal M}(S)\) of the moduli space \(\mathcal M(S)\). The natural inclusion from \(\mathcal M(S)\) to \(A\mathcal I(S)\) can be extended continuously to an inclusion from \(\overline{\mathcal M} (S)\) to this compactification.