Infinitesimal projective rigidity under Dehn filling

DOI10.2140/GT.2011.15.2017MaRDI QIDQ658409zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 12 January 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2863

infinitesimal deformation projective structure variety of representations

Projective differential geometry (53A20) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50)

Abstract: To a hyperbolic manifold one can associate a canonical projective structure and ask whether it can be deformed or not. In a cusped manifold, one can ask about the existence of deformations that are trivial on the boundary. We prove that if the canonical projective structure of a cusped manifold is infinitesimally projectively rigid relative to the boundary, then infinitely many Dehn fillings are projectively rigid. We analyze in more detail the figure eight knot and the Withehead link exteriors, for which we can give explicit infinite families of slopes with projectively rigid Dehn fillings.

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To each hyperbolic manifold, a canonical projective structure can be associated and the fundamental question the present work deals with is whether or not this structure can be deformed. The definition of a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold being infinitesimally projectively rigid is given, as well as the definition of a hyperbolic cusped 3-manifold of finite volume being infinitesimally projectively rigid relative to the cusps. The first theorem proven by the authors concerns hyperbolic cusped 3-manifolds and it states that, if \(M\) is a compact orientable 3-manifold whose interior is hyperbolic with finite volume and if \(M\) is infinitesimally projectively rigid relative to the cusps then infinitely many Dehn fillings on \(M\) are infinitesimally projectively rigid. The second theorem concerns closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Recall that the hyperbolic Dehn filling space was defined by Thurston who proved that for all but a finite number of filling slopes on each boundary component, the 3-manifolds obtained by Dehn filling are hyperbolic. The second main result of the paper is stated as follows: Let \(M\) be a compact orientable 3-manifold whose interior is hyperbolic with cusps. If a hyperbolic Dehn filling \(N\) on \(M\) satisfies (i) \(N\) is infinitesimally projectively rigid, (ii) the Dehn filling slope of \(N\) is contained in the (connected) hyperbolic Dehn filling space of \(M,\) then infinitely many Dehn fillings on \(M\) are infinitesimally projectively rigid.

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