Volume optimization, normal surfaces, and Thurston's equation on triangulated 3-manifolds

DOI10.4310/JDG/1361800868MaRDI QIDQ360072zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Feng Luo

Publication date 26 August 2013

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1138, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jdg/1361800868

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldsideal triangulation\(\mathbb{S}^1\)-angle structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Triangulating (57R05)

Abstract: We propose a finite dimensional variational principle on triangulated 3-manifolds 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. Combining the result in this paper and the work of Futer-Gu'eritaud, Segerman-Tillmann and Luo-Tillmann, we obtain a new finite dimensional variational formulation of the Poncare-conjecture. This provides a step toward a new proof the Poincar'e conjecture without using the Ricci flow.

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