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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).

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@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}
}

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30 pages, 7 figures

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