Tetrahedra of flags, volume and homology of SL(3)

DOI10.2140/GT.2014.18.1911MaRDI QIDQ463140zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicolas Bergeron, Elisha Falbel, Antonin Guilloux

Publication date 16 October 2014

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2742

zbMATH Keywords

3-manifolds\(\mathrm{PGL}(3, \mathbb{C})\)Bloch grouptetrahedra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20)

Abstract: In the paper we define a "volume" for simplicial complexes of flag tetrahedra. This generalizes and unifies the classical volume of hyperbolic manifolds and the volume of CR tetrahedra complexes. We describe when this volume belongs to the Bloch group. In doing so, we recover and generalize results of Neumann-Zagier, Neumann, and Kabaya. Our approach is very related to the work of Fock and Goncharov.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a complete hyperbolic 3-manifold. By using tetrahedral decompositions of \(M\), Thurston developed a method to calculate representations \(\pi_1(M) \to \mathrm{PGL}(2, \mathbb{C})\), and the hyperbolic volume of the representation.NEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper under review, the authors develop a method to calculate representations \(\pi_1(M) \to \mathrm{PGL}(3, \mathbb{C})\) by using decorated tetrahedra of flags. Also, the notion of volume of this representation is introduced. This is a nice generalization of the volume of the hyperbolic structure and the Cauchy-Riemann structure of \(M\). This volume can be calculated explicitly and depends only on the boundary data of \(M\).

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