Triangulations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds admitting strict angle structures

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTS022zbMATH Open1262.57018arXiv1111.3168OpenAlexW3099857077MaRDI QIDQ4899005FDOQ4899005

Henry Segerman, Craig Hodgson, J. Hyam Rubinstein

Publication date: 4 January 2013

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

ideal triangulationhyperbolic \(3\)-manifoldsstrict angle structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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