Hyperbolic cone-manifold structures with prescribed holonomy. I: Punctured tori

DOI10.1007/S10711-010-9547-YMaRDI QIDQ540485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Mathews

Publication date 3 June 2011

Published in Geometriae Dedicata (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5223

zbMATH Keywords

holonomyhyperbolic cone-manifold structurehyperbolic surface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: We consider the relationship between hyperbolic cone-manifold structures on surfaces, and algebraic representations of the fundamental group into a group of isometries. A hyperbolic cone-manifold structure on a surface, with all interior cone angles being integer multiples of $2pi$, determines a holonomy representation of the fundamental group. We ask, conversely, when a representation of the fundamental group is the holonomy of a hyperbolic cone-manifold structure. In this paper we prove results for the punctured torus; in the sequel, for higher genus surfaces. We show that a representation of the fundamental group of a punctured torus is a holonomy representation of a hyperbolic cone-manifold structure with no interior cone points and a single corner point if and only if it is not virtually abelian. We construct a pentagonal fundamental domain for hyperbolic structures, from the geometry of a representation. Our techniques involve the universal covering group of the group of orientation-preserving isometries of the hyperbolic plane, and Markoff moves arising from the action of the mapping class group on the character variety.

Review text

A hyperbolic cone-manifold structure on a surface \(S\), with all interior cone angles being integer multiples of \(2\pi\), determines a holonomy representation \(\rho: \pi_1(S) \to \text{PSL}_2(\mathbb R)\) of the fundamental group (since a small loop around a cone point is homotopically trivial, in order for the holonomy to be well-defined, the corresponding isometry of \(\mathbb H^2\) must be the identity and hence the cone angle a multiple of \(2\pi\)). The main problem considered in the present paper is the converse question when a representation of the fundamental group is the holonomy of a hyperbolic cone-structure. The main result is for the case of the punctured torus: a homomorphism \(\rho: \pi_1(S) \to \text{PSL}_2(\mathbb R)\) from the fundamental group of the punctured torus to the isometry group of the hyperbolic plane is the holonomy representation of a hyperbolic cone-manifold structure on \(S\), with no interior cone points and with geodesic boundary except for at most one corner point (where the corner angle can assume all values in the interval \((0,3\pi)\)) if and only if the representation is not virtually abelian (i.e., its image does not contain an abelian subgroup of finite index). In a sequel available electronically this is used to prove results also for higher-genus surfaces.

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