From angled triangulations to hyperbolic structures

zbMATH Open1236.57002arXiv1004.0440MaRDI QIDQ3172634FDOQ3172634

Authors: David Futer, François Guéritaud 

Publication date: 5 October 2011

Abstract: This survey paper contains an elementary exposition of Casson and Rivin's technique for finding the hyperbolic metric on a 3-manifold M with toroidal boundary. We also survey a number of applications of this technique. The method involves subdividing M into ideal tetrahedra and solving a system of gluing equations to find hyperbolic shapes for the tetrahedra. The gluing equations decompose into a linear and non-linear part. The solutions to the linear equations form a convex polytope A. The solution to the non-linear part (unique if it exists) is a critical point of a certain volume functional on this polytope. The main contribution of this paper is an elementary proof of Rivin's theorem that a critical point of the volume functional on A produces a complete hyperbolic structure on M.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0440

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zbMATH Keywords

surveycritical pointvolume functional3-manifoldhyperbolic metricgluing equationsideal tetrahedratoroidal boundaryhyperbolic shapes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02)

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