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Combinatorial Ricci flows and the hyperbolization of a class of compact 3-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2022-08-17 v2 Algebraic Topology Geometric Topology Metric Geometry

Abstract

We prove that for a compact 3-manifold M with boundary admitting an ideal triangulation T with valence at least 10 at all edges, there exists a unique complete hyperbolic metric with totally geodesic boundary, so that T is isotopic to a geometric decomposition of M. Our approach is to use a variant of the combinatorial Ricci flow introduced by Luo [Luo05] for pseudo 3-manifolds. In this case, we prove that the extended Ricci flow converges to the hyperbolic metric exponentially fast.

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@article{arxiv.2009.03731,
  title  = {Combinatorial Ricci flows and the hyperbolization of a class of compact 3-manifolds},
  author = {Ke Feng and Huabin Ge and Bobo Hua},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.03731},
  year   = {2022}
}

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31 pages. This is a revision of the paper