A unique hyperbolic metric is found for each spherical cone-metric on the boundary of a hyperbolizable 3-manifold.
problem Finding a hyperbolic metric for a given spherical cone-metric on the boundary of a hyperbolizable 3-manifold.
method Constructing a strictly polyhedral hyperbolic metric on the 3-manifold such that the given spherical cone-metric is the induced dual metric on the boundary.
result The existence and uniqueness of a strictly polyhedral hyperbolic metric for a given spherical cone-metric on the boundary of a hyperbolizable 3-manifold.
We study the geometry of hyperbolic cone surfaces, possibly with cusps or geodesic boundaries. We prove that any hyperbolic cone structure on a surface of non-exceptional type is determined up to isotopy by the geodesic lengths of a finite specific homotopy classes of non-peripheral simple closed curves. As an applicat…
Characterizes rigid and flexible hyperbolic cone metrics and billiards.
problem Understanding the rigidity and flexibility of hyperbolic cone metrics and their billiard dynamics.
method Characterization through Liouville currents and deformation spaces.
result Generic rigidity and parameterization of deformation spaces for flexible metrics.
Study convex hyperbolic cone-metrics on 3-manifold boundaries, proving unique bent realizations.
problem Convex hyperbolic cone-metrics on 3-manifold boundaries and their bent realizations.
method Alexandrov-Weyl-type problem, bent metrics, controllably polyhedral, Lipschitz topology.
result Unique bent realizations for convex hyperbolic cone-metrics on 3-manifold boundaries.
Flexible metrics found on a genus 2 surface.
problem Identifying non-rigid hyperbolic cone metrics on a genus 2 surface.
method Using a theorem by Erlandsson, Leininger, and Sadanand.
result Nine mapping class group orbits of non-rigid metrics found.
Study coning totally geodesic boundaries of hyperbolic manifolds.
problem Understanding metrics on coned-off spaces of hyperbolic manifolds.
method Analyzing the geometric and group-theoretic properties of coned-off spaces.
result Explicit conditions for negatively curved metrics and locally convex subsets.
New method fractures hyperbolic manifolds using cone singularities.
problem Deforming hyperbolic manifolds with cone singularities.
method Direct manipulation of a fundamental polyhedron to change cone angles.
result Upper unknotting tunnels of highly twisted links can be drilled out.
Anti-de Sitter spacetimes embed cone-metrics as bent Cauchy surfaces.
problem Embedding cone-metrics in anti-de Sitter spacetimes.
method Proving embeddings using Fuchsian representations and GHMC spacetimes.
result Unique embeddings of cone-metrics in GHMC anti-de Sitter spacetimes.
An extra large metric is a spherical cone metric with all cone angles greater than 2 pi and every closed geodesic longer than 2pi. We show that every two-dimensional extra large metric can be triangulated with vertices at cone points only. The argument implies the same result for Euclidean and hyperbolic cone metrics, …
Study proves Volume Conjecture for Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants.
problem Volume Conjecture for Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants.
method Hyperbolic cone metrics and discrete Fourier transforms.
result Proves Volume Conjecture for most figure-8 knot configurations.
Study circular foliations and shear-radius coordinates on hyperbolic cone surfaces.
problem Characterize Teichmüller spaces of hyperbolic cone surfaces.
method Construct circular foliations and shear-radius coordinates on Teichmüller spaces of hyperbolic cone surfaces.
result Shear-radius coordinates provide global coordinates on Teichmüller spaces and converge to specific metrics.
The paper connects 3D manifold invariants to hyperbolic cone metrics and discrete Fourier transforms.
problem Volume conjecture for Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants of 3-manifolds with links.
method Volume conjecture, hyperbolic cone metrics, discrete Fourier transforms, change-of-pair operations.
result Volume conjecture proven for specific cases, provides approach to solving Volume Conjecture for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
We introduce a concept of tree-graded metric space and we use it to show quasi-isometry invariance of certain classes of relatively hyperbolic groups, to obtain a characterization of relatively hyperbolic groups in terms of their asymptotic cones, to find geometric properties of Cayley graphs of relatively hyperbolic g…
We prove that a 3-dimensional hyperbolic cusp with convex polyhedral boundary is uniquely determined by the metric induced on its boundary. Furthemore, any hyperbolic metric on the torus with cone singularities of positive curvature can be realized as the induced metric on the boundary of a convex polyhedral cusp. The …
The study classifies Einstein metrics on a specific total space, revealing various behaviors and transitions.
problem Classifying conformally Kähler, U(2)-invariant, Einstein metrics. method Drawing on Derdziński's results from the 80s, the study classifies metrics on O(−m) for all m∈N. result The study discovers infinitely many 1-parameter families of Einstein metrics with different behaviors, including asymptotically hyperbolic, ALF, and cone angle limits.
Lightlike hypersurfaces in cone structures minimize time.
problem Finding time-minimizing paths in cone structures.
method Defining lightlike hypersurfaces and proving their foliation by cone geodesics.
result Lightlike hypersurfaces in globally hyperbolic spacetimes are time-minimizing.
Starting with a compact hyperbolic cone-manifold of dimension n > 2, we study the deformations of the metric in order to get Einstein cone-manifolds. If the singular locus is a closed codimension 2 submanifold and all cone angles are smaller than 2 pi, we show that there is no non-trivial infinitesimal Einstein deforma…
We prove that the isoperimetric inequalities in the euclidean and hyperbolic plane hold for all euclidean, respectively hyperbolic, cone-metrics on a disk with singularities of negative curvature. This is a discrete analog of the theorems of Weil and Bol that deal with Riemannian metrics of curvature bounded from above…
We investigate the rigidity of hyperbolic cone metrics on 3-manifolds which are isometric gluing of ideal and hyper-ideal tetrahedra in hyperbolic spaces. These metrics will be called ideal and hyper-ideal hyperbolic polyhedral metrics. It is shown that a hyper-ideal hyperbolic polyhedral metric is determined up to i…
Study transverse measures on infinite type hyperbolic surfaces.
problem Characterize the cone of transverse measures on infinite type hyperbolic surfaces.
method Use inverse limits and geodesic laminations to describe and construct cones of transverse measures.
result Explicit descriptions and bases of cones of transverse measures exist for many laminations.
Starting with a compact hyperbolic cone-manifold of dimension greater than or equal to 3, we study the deformations of the metric with the aim of getting Einstein cone-manifolds. If the singular locus is a closed codimension 2 submanifold and all cone angles are smaller than 2 pi, we show that there is no non-trivial i…
We investigate 3-dimensional globally hyperbolic AdS manifolds containing "particles", i.e., cone singularities of angles less than 2π along a time-like graph Γ. To each such space we associate a graph and a finite family of pairs of hyperbolic surfaces with cone singularities. We show that this data is sufficient …
The deformation theory of hyperbolic and Euclidean cone-manifolds with all cone angles less then 2π plays an important role in many problems in low dimensional topology and in the geometrization of 3-manifolds. Furthermore, various old conjectures dating back to Stoker about the moduli of convex hyperbolic and Euclidea…
We prove that for any convex globally hyperbolic maximal (GHM) anti-de Sitter (AdS) 3-dimensional space-time N with particles (cone singularities of angles less than π along time-like curves), the complement of the convex core in N admits a unique foliation by constant Gauss curvature surfaces. This extends, and …
We prove two related results. The first is an ``Earthquake Theorem'' for closed hyperbolic surfaces with cone singularities where the total angle is less than π: any two such metrics in are connected by a unique left earthquake. The second result is that the space of ``globally hyperbolic'' AdS manifolds with ``parti…
Study on a specific type of Riemannian manifolds constructed from 2D space-forms.
problem Characterizing and understanding new types of Riemannian manifolds.
method Constructed as a product of a real line and a 2-dimensional Riemannian space-form, with metrics derived from cone and hyperbolic extensions.
result Characterized and studied in terms of their curvature properties.
New Einstein metrics found from para-Sasaki-like Riemannian manifolds.
problem Finding new Einstein metrics in Riemannian geometry.
method Cone construction and hyperbolic extension of paracontact paracomplex Riemannian manifolds.
result New complete Einstein para-Sasaki-like Riemannian manifolds with negative scalar curvature.
By a result of W.~P. Thurston, the moduli space of flat metrics on the sphere with n cone singularities of prescribed positive curvatures is a complex hyperbolic orbifold of dimension n−3. The Hermitian form comes from the area of the metric. Using geometry of Euclidean polyhedra, we observe that this space has a n…
Hildebrand classified all semi-homogeneous cones in R3 and computed their corresponding complete hyperbolic affine spheres. We compute isothermal parametrizations for Hildebrand's new examples. After giving their affine metrics and affine cubic forms, we construct the whole associated family for each of Hil…
In this paper we develop a new theory of infinitesimal harmonic deformations for compact hyperbolic 3-manifolds with ``tubular boundary''. In particular, this applies to complements of tubes of radius at least $R_0 = \arctanh(1/\sqrt{3}) \approx 0.65848$ around the singular set of hyperbolic cone manifolds, removing th…
We investigate 3-dimensional globally hyperbolic AdS manifolds containing "particles", i.e., cone singularities along a graph Γ. We impose physically relevant conditions on the cone singularities, e.g. positivity of mass (angle less than 2π on time-like singular segments). We construct examples of such manifolds, d…
For 3-dimensional hyperbolic cone structures with cone angles θ, local rigidity is known for 0≤θ≤2π, but global rigidity is known only for 0≤θ≤π. The proof of the global rigidity by Kojima is based on the fact that hyperbolic cone structures with cone angles at most π do not degenerate in defo…
Let S be a torus with a hyperbolic metric admitting one puncture or cone singularity. We describe which infinitesimal deformations of S lengthen (or shrink) all closed geodesics. We also study how the answer degenerates when S becomes Euclidean, i.e. very small.
Graded identities for hyperbolic surfaces with cusps and cone points.
problem Understanding dilogarithm identities on hyperbolic surfaces.
method Establishing graded versions of Bridgeman's dilogarithm identity.
result Applications to the study of orthogeodesics.
We prove that every closed oriented 3-manifold admits a hyperbolic cone-manifold structure with cone-angle arbitrarily close to 2pi.
Defines a new version of Turaev-Viro invariants for 3-manifolds with boundaries.
problem Computing the volume of hyperbolic polyhedral 3-manifolds.
method Introduces a relative version of Turaev-Viro invariants for ideally triangulated compact 3-manifolds with boundaries and a coloring on edges.
result Proves the Volume Conjecture for these invariants, suggesting a method to solve the conjecture for hyperbolic 3-manifolds with totally geodesic boundary.
We define and give explicit construction of the universal tree-graded space with a given collection of pieces. We apply that to proving uniqueness of asymptotic cones of relatively hyperbolic groups whose peripheral subgroups have unique asymptotic cones. Modulo the Continuum Hypothesis, we show that if an asymptotic c…
We show that any compact orientable hyperbolic 3-cone-manifold with cone angle at most πcan be continuously deformed to a complete hyperbolic manifold homeomorphic to the complement of the singularity. This together with the local rigidity by Hodgson and Kerckhoff implies the global rigidity for compact orientable hype…
Clarifies definitions of global hyperbolicity in various spaces.
problem Clarifying terminology in recent literature on global hyperbolicity.
method Comparing definitions in Lorentzian length spaces, optimal transport, and topological preordered spaces.
result The causal relation is a closed order and preserves compactness in all cases.
Sharp inequalities for curved surfaces and cones.
problem Optimizing areas in nonpositively curved spaces.
method Proving inequalities for disks and triangles in cones.
result Minimal area properties for specific shapes in cones.
This work is devoted to the study of deformations of hyperbolic cone structures under the assumption that the lengths of the singularity remain uniformly bounded over the deformation. Given a sequence (M_{i},p_{i}) of pointed hyperbolic cone-manifolds with topological type (M,Σ), where M is a closed, orientable and irr…
Researchers express spectral determinants on hyperbolic cones.
problem Express spectral determinants on 2D hyperbolic cones.
method Explicitly expressed spectral determinants in terms of cone angle and geodesic radius.
result Results in recent paper by Freixas i Montplet and von Pippich were incorrect.
We prove 3-dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifolds are geometrically inflexible: a cone-deformation of a hyperbolic cone-manifold determines a bi-Lipschitz diffeomorphism between initial and terminal manifolds in the deformation in the complement of a standard tubular neighborhood of the cone-locus whose pointwise bi-Lip…
We consider quasifuchsian manifolds with "particles", i.e., cone singularities of fixed angle less than π going from one connected component of the boundary at infinity to the other. Each connected component of the boundary at infinity is then endowed with a conformal structure marked by the endpoints of the particle…
Recently, Hodgson and Kerckhoff found a small bound on Dehn surgered 3-manifolds from hyperbolic knots not admitting hyperbolic structures using deformations of hyperbolic cone-manifolds. They asked whether the area normalized meridian length squared of maximal tubular neighborhoods of the singular locus of the cone-ma…
Groups with hyperbolic properties don't have strong Property (T).
problem Proving groups with hyperbolic properties don't have strong Property (T).
method Constructing an unbounded affine representation with polynomial growth.
result Groups with hyperbolic properties do not have strong Property (T).
We are generalizing to higher dimensions the Bavard-Ghys construction of the hyperbolic metric on the space of polygons with fixed directions of edges. The space of convex d-dimensional polyhedra with fixed directions of facet normals has a decomposition into type cones that correspond to different combinatorial types …
We prove global rigidity for compact hyperbolic and spherical cone-3-manifolds with cone-angles ≤π (which are not Seifert fibered in the spherical case), furthermore for a class of hyperbolic cone-3-manifolds of finite volume with cone-angles ≤π, possibly with boundary consisting of totally geodesic hyperbo…