Affine deformations of a three-holed sphere
Differential Geometry
2011-07-12 v1
Abstract
Associated to every complete affine 3-manifold M with nonsolvable fundamental group is a noncompact hyperbolic surface S. We classify such complete affine structures when Sigma is homeomorphic to a three-holed sphere. In particular, for every such complete hyperbolic surface Sigma, the deformation space identifies with two opposite octants in R^3. Furthermore every M admits a fundamental polyhedron bounded by crooked planes. Therefore M is homeomorphic to an open solid handlebody of genus two. As an explicit application of this theory, we construct proper affine deformations of an arithmetic Fuchsian group inside Sp(4,Z).
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.0690,
title = {Affine deformations of a three-holed sphere},
author = {Virginie Charette and Todd A. Drumm and William M. Goldman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.0690},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
30 pages, 7 figures