Examples of infinitesimally flexible 3-dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifolds (Q548526)

It is well-known that compact hyperbolic \(n\)-manifolds are infinitesimally rigid if \(n \geq 3\). This was extended to include the case of hyperbolic cone-manifolds (without vertices) by \textit{C. D. Hodgson} and \textit{S. P. Kerckhoff} [J. Differ. Geom. 48, No.~1, 1--59 (1998; Zbl 0919.57009)] and (with vertices) by \textit{H. Weiss} [ibid. 71, No.~3, 437--506 (2005; Zbl 1098.53038)] if all cone angles are less than \(2 \pi\). On the other hand, if we allow some of the cone angles to be greater than \(2 \pi\), there can exist examples of infinitesimally flexible hyperbolic cone-manifolds, first presented by A. Casson. In the paper under review, several new examples of infinitesimally flexible cone-manifolds, including the ones without vertices and with all cone angles larger than \(2\pi \), are constructed. To achieve the result, the approach of this paper is to use the double of an infinitesimally flexible hyperbolic polyhedron. Also by using similar techniques, examples of cone-manifolds with cone angles larger than \(2 \pi\) for which global rigidity fails are obtained. This contrasts with the case of cone-manifolds with cone angles less than \(\pi\). In that case the global rigidity holds, as shown (without vertices) by \textit{S. Kojima} [ibid. 49, No.~3, 469--516 (1998; Zbl 0990.57004)] and (with vertices) by \textit{H. Weiss} [ibid. 76, No.~3, 495--523 (2007; Zbl 1184.53049)].