Chimneys, Leopard spots and the identities of Basmajian and Bridgeman

DOI10.2140/AGT.2010.10.1857zbMATH Open1196.57010arXiv1005.4858OpenAlexW1965797197MaRDI QIDQ991847FDOQ991847

Authors: Danny Calegari 

Publication date: 8 September 2010

Published in: Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a simple geometric argument to derive in a common manner orthospectrum identities of Basmajian and Bridgeman. Our method also considerably simplifies the determination of the summands in these identities. For example, for every odd integer n, there is a rational function q_n of degree 2(n-2) so that if M is a compact hyperbolic manifold of dimension n with totally geodesic boundary S, there is an identity chi(S) = sum_i q_n(e^{l_i}) where the sum is taken over the orthospectrum of M. When n=3, this has the explicit form sum_i 1/(e^{2l_i}-1) = -chi(S)/4.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4858

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zbMATH Keywords

dilogarithmidentityorthospectrumChimneyLeopard spot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Kleinian groups (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F40) Markov and Lagrange spectra and generalizations (11J06)

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• On systoles and ortho spectrum rigidity
• Identities on hyperbolic manifolds
• The Bridgeman-Kahn identity for hyperbolic manifolds with cusped boundary
• Poincaré series for surfaces with boundary
• Moments of the boundary hitting function for the geodesic flow on a hyperbolic manifold
• Prime orthogeodesics, concave cores and families of identities on hyperbolic surfaces
• Hilbert geometry without convexity
• Lower bounds for volumes and orthospectra of hyperbolic manifolds with geodesic boundary
• Moments of a length function on the boundary of a hyperbolic manifold
• Equidecomposability, volume formulae and orthospectra
• Orthospectra of geodesic laminations and dilogarithm identities on moduli space
• Basmajian's identity in higher Teichmüller-Thurston theory

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