On the concrete construction of hyperbolic structures of 3-manifolds
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: On the concrete construction of hyperbolic structures of 3-manifolds
zbMATH Open document ID: 0585.57007
author: Moto-o Takahashi
published in: Tsukuba Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: In his famous lectures on the geometry and topology of 3-manifolds, W. Thurston constructed a hyperbolic structure on the figure eight knot complement by gluing together the 2-faces of two ideal hyperbolic 3- simplices. The author extends Thurston's technique to cover other knot complements and compact 3-manifolds. A nice triangulation of a 3-manifold M is defined to be a representation of M as the result of pairwise gluing 2-faces of a finite set of 3-simplices and deletion (small regular neighborhoods of) all vertices. It is shown that every compact 3-manifold with non-empty boundary admits nice triangulations. Two practical methods to construct nice triangulations of 3-manifolds are described. One method applies to link complements and starts off with the link diagrams; the second applies to compact 3-manifolds with non-empty boundary and starts with Heegaard diagrams. The author demonstrates how to combine these methods with the technique of ideal hyperbolic simplices to obtain (complete) hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds. An impressive amount of examples is presented.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57N10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 51M10
zbMATH DE Number: 3938049
zbMATH Keywords: knot complements
zbMATH Keywords: compact 3-manifold
zbMATH Keywords: triangulations
zbMATH Keywords: link complements
zbMATH Keywords: link diagrams
zbMATH Keywords: Heegaard diagrams
zbMATH Keywords: ideal hyperbolic simplices
zbMATH Keywords: hyperbolic structures
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.21099/tkbjm/1496160193
OpenAlex ID: W655485633
DOI: 10.21099/TKBJM/1496160193
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