Finite-sided deformation spaces of complete affine 3-manifolds

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTT028MaRDI QIDQ2879009zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Virginie Charette, Todd A. Drumm, William M. Goldman

Publication date 5 September 2014

Published in Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.2862

zbMATH Keywords

affine deformationscrooked planesFricke spaceMargulis invariantMargulis spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: A Margulis spacetime is a complete affine 3-manifold M with nonsolvable fundamental group. Associated to every Margulis spacetime is a noncompact complete hyperbolic surface S. We show that every Margulis spacetime is orientable, even though S may be nonorientable. We classify Margulis spacetimes when S is homeomorphic to a two-holed cross-surface, that is, the complement of two disjoint discs in the real projective plane. We show that every such manifold is homeomorphic to a solid handlebody of genus two, and admits a fundamental polyhedron bounded by crooked planes. Furthermore, the deformation space is a bundle of convex quadrilateral cones over the space of marked hyperbolic structures. The sides of each quadrilateral cone are defined by invariants of the two boundary components and the two orientation-reversing simple curves. The two-holed cross-surface, together with the three-holed sphere, are the only topologies for which the deformation space of complete affine structures is finite-sided.

Review text

Let \(E\) denote the real affine \(3\)-dimensional space endowed with the Minkowski inner product. A \textsl{Margulis spacetime} is a manifold obtained as the quotient of \(E\) by the proper action of a discrete free group \(\Gamma\) of affine Minkowski isometries. The natural linear representation of \(\Gamma\) into the group of linear Minkowski isometries \(\mathrm{SO}(2,1)\) is faithful and discrete. Its image \(\Gamma_0\) is thus a Fuchsian group, and it follows that one can naturally associate to each Margulis spacetime a hyperbolic surface with free fundamental group.NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper is devoted to the study of Margulis spacetimes whose associated hyperbolic surfaces are topologically real projective planes with two punctures. The authors prove that in this case the Margulis spacetime is homeomorphic to the interior of handlebody of genus \(2\). Moreover, these Margulis spacetimes are ``tame in the sense that \(\Gamma\) admits a fundamental domain bounded by ``crooked planes. This latter result proves the ``Crooked Plane Conjecture for proper affine deformations of Fuchsian groups uniformising the twice-punctured real projective plane.NEWLINENEWLINESome remarks on Margulis spacetimes whose associated hyperbolic surfaces have free fundamental group of rank \(2\) (sphere with four punctures, once-punctured torus and Klein bottle) are also provided.

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