Triangulated 3-manifolds: from Haken's normal surfaces to Thurston's algebraic equation

zbMATH Open1236.57004arXiv1003.4413MaRDI QIDQ3172635FDOQ3172635

Authors: Feng Luo 

Publication date: 5 October 2011

Abstract: We give a brief summary of some of our work and our joint work with Stephan Tillmann on solving Thurston's equation and Haken equation on triangulated 3-manifolds in this paper. Several conjectures on the existence of solutions to Thurston's equation and Haken equation are made. Resolutions of these conjecture will lead to a new proof of the Poincar'e conjecture without using the Ricci flow. We approach these conjectures by a finite dimensional variational principle so that its critical points are related to solutions to Thurston's gluing equation and Haken's normal surface equation. The action functional is the volume. This is a generalization of an earlier program by Casson and Rivin for compact 3-manifolds with torus boundary.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4413

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Circle packings and discrete conformal geometry (52C26) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02)

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