Examples of infinitesimally flexible 3-dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifolds

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/06320581MaRDI QIDQ548526zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivan Izmestiev

Publication date 29 June 2011

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2876

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic cone-manifoldinfinitesimal isometryPogorelov map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Rigidity results (53C24) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: Weiss and, independently, Mazzeo and Montcouquiol recently proved that a 3--dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifold (possibly with vertices) with all cone angles less than $2pi$ is infinitesimally rigid. On the other hand, Casson provided 1998 an example of an infinitesimally flexible cone-manifold with some of the cone angles larger than $2pi$. In this paper several new examples of infinitesimally flexible cone-manifolds are constructed. The basic idea is that the double of an infinitesimally flexible polyhedron is an infinitesimally flexible cone-manifold. With some additional effort, we are able to construct infinitesimally flexible cone-manifolds without vertices and with all cone angles larger than $2pi$.

Review text

It is well-known that compact hyperbolic \(n\)-manifolds are infinitesimally rigid if \(n \geq 3\). This was extended to include the case of hyperbolic cone-manifolds (without vertices) by \textit{C. D. Hodgson} and \textit{S. P. Kerckhoff} [J. Differ. Geom. 48, No.~1, 1--59 (1998; Zbl 0919.57009)] and (with vertices) by \textit{H. Weiss} [ibid. 71, No.~3, 437--506 (2005; Zbl 1098.53038)] if all cone angles are less than \(2 \pi\). On the other hand, if we allow some of the cone angles to be greater than \(2 \pi\), there can exist examples of infinitesimally flexible hyperbolic cone-manifolds, first presented by A. Casson. In the paper under review, several new examples of infinitesimally flexible cone-manifolds, including the ones without vertices and with all cone angles larger than \(2\pi \), are constructed. To achieve the result, the approach of this paper is to use the double of an infinitesimally flexible hyperbolic polyhedron. Also by using similar techniques, examples of cone-manifolds with cone angles larger than \(2 \pi\) for which global rigidity fails are obtained. This contrasts with the case of cone-manifolds with cone angles less than \(\pi\). In that case the global rigidity holds, as shown (without vertices) by \textit{S. Kojima} [ibid. 49, No.~3, 469--516 (1998; Zbl 0990.57004)] and (with vertices) by \textit{H. Weiss} [ibid. 76, No.~3, 495--523 (2007; Zbl 1184.53049)].

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