Triangulations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds admitting strict angle structures

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTS022MaRDI QIDQ4899005zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Craig Hodgson, Henry Segerman, J. Hyam Rubinstein

Publication date 4 January 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3168

zbMATH Keywords

ideal triangulationhyperbolic \(3\)-manifoldsstrict angle structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: It is conjectured that every cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold has a decomposition into positive volume ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra (a "geometric" triangulation of the manifold). Under a mild homology assumption on the manifold we construct topological ideal triangulations which admit a strict angle structure, which is a necessary condition for the triangulation to be geometric. In particular, every knot or link complement in the 3-sphere has such a triangulation. We also give an example of a triangulation without a strict angle structure, where the obstruction is related to the homology hypothesis, and an example illustrating that the triangulations produced using our methods are not generally geometric.

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