Regenerating hyperbolic cone structures from Nil

DOI10.2140/GT.2002.6.815MaRDI QIDQ1416619zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joan Porti

Publication date 15 December 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0212298, https://eudml.org/doc/123317, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/gt/GTVol6/paper24.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

cone 3-manifoldsHyperbolic structurelocal rigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Let O be a three-dimensional Nil-orbifold, with branching locus a knot Sigma transverse to the Seifert fibration. We prove that O is the limit of hyperbolic cone manifolds with cone angle in (pi-epsilon, pi). We also study the space of Dehn filling parameters of O-Sigma. Surprisingly it is not diffeomorphic to the deformation space constructed from the variety of representations of O-Sigma. As a corollary of this, we find examples of spherical cone manifolds with singular set a knot that are not locally rigid. Those examples have large cone angles.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a 3-dimensional \(Nil\)-orbifold, whose singular set is a circle transverse to the Seifert fibration. The first result here is that \(M\) is the limit, after rescaling, of a sequence of hyperbolic cone-manifolds \((M_\alpha)_{\alpha\in (\pi-\epsilon, \pi)}\), with the same singular set as \(M\) and with cone angle \(\alpha\). When \(\alpha\rightarrow \pi\), the limit of \((M_\alpha)_{\alpha\in (\pi-\epsilon, \pi)}\) without scaling is a Euclidean 2-dimensional orbifold; the scaling which is needed is by a factor \((\pi-\alpha)^{-1/3}\) in the horizontal directions, and \((\pi-\alpha)^{-2/3}\) in the vertical direction. This statement is actually a consequence of a careful study of the space of geometric structures near \(M\), parametrized by their Dehn-filling coefficients. Near \(M\), the space of Dehn-filling coefficients has 3 open components, one of which corresponds to hyperbolic structures and the other to spherical structures, with a curve of Euclidean structures in between. As another consequence, some spherical cone-manifolds structures are not locally rigid: there are other cone-manifolds which are arbitrarily close, with the same underlying topology and the same cone angles. This corresponds to a folding in the description above, with some Dehn filling coefficients corresponding to two different spherical structures. The proof rests on a local study of the representations of the underlying space of \(M\) near its \(Nil\)-orbifold structure.

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