Shapes of hyperbolic triangles and once-punctured torus groups

DOI10.1007/S00209-021-02745-3zbMATH Open1481.30028arXiv2006.02621OpenAlexW3159941549WikidataQ115609044 ScholiaQ115609044MaRDI QIDQ2664673FDOQ2664673

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 17 November 2021

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $Delta$ be a hyperbolic triangle with a fixed area $varphi$. We prove that for all but countably many $varphi$, generic choices of $Delta$ have the property that the group generated by the $pi$--rotations about the midpoints of the sides of the triangle admits no nontrivial relations. By contrast, we show for all $varphiin(0,pi)setminusmathbbQpi$, a dense set of triangles does afford nontrivial relations, which in the generic case map to hyperbolic translations. To establish this fact, we study the deformation space $mathfrak{C}_{h}eta$ of singular hyperbolic metrics on a torus with a single cone point of angle $heta=2(pi-varphi)$, and answer an analogous question for the holonomy map $h{o}_{x}i$ of such a hyperbolic structure $xi$. In an appendix by X.~Gao, concrete examples of $heta$ and $xiinmathfrak{C}_{h}eta$ are given where the image of each $h{o}_{x}i$ is finitely presented, non-free and torsion-free; in fact, those images will be isomorphic to the fundamental groups of closed hyperbolic 3--manifolds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02621

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zbMATH Keywords

Fuchsian groupsKleinian groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40)

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• Hyperbolic cone-manifold structures with prescribed holonomy. I: Punctured tori

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