Volume maximization and the extended hyperbolic space

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2011-10941-9MaRDI QIDQ2880667zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Feng Luo, Jean-Marc Schlenker

Publication date 13 April 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2023

zbMATH Keywords

angle structurede Sitter spacevolume functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic and elliptic geometries (general) and generalizations (51M10) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Abstract: We consider a volume maximization program to construct hyperbolic structures on triangulated 3-manifolds, for which previous progress has lead to consider angle assignments which do not correspond to a hyperbolic metric on each simplex. We show that critical points of the generalized volume are associated to geometric structures modeled on the extended hyperbolic space -- the natural extension of hyperbolic space by the de Sitter space -- except for the degenerate case where all simplices are Euclidean in a generalized sense. Those extended hyperbolic structures can realize geometrically a decomposition of the manifold as connected sum, along embedded spheres (or projective planes) which are totally geodesic, space-like surfaces in the de Sitter part of the extended hyperbolic structure.

Review text

Given an angle structure on a triangulation of a 3-manifold, Casson-Rivin (for a 3-manifold with torus boundary) and Luo (for closed 3 manifolds) defined a naturally associated hyperbolic volume.NEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper under review, the authors investigate the relationship between the critical points of the volume functional and a natural extension of hyperbolic space by de Sitter space. They show that many of the critical points have geometric meaning (e.g. the existence of a spherical metric) in terms of geometric structures based on the extended hyperbolic space.

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