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Examples of infinitesimally flexible 3--dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2009-11-02 v2 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Weiss and, independently, Mazzeo and Montcouquiol recently proved that a 3--dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifold (possibly with vertices) with all cone angles less than 2π2\pi is infinitesimally rigid. On the other hand, Casson provided 1998 an example of an infinitesimally flexible cone-manifold with some of the cone angles larger than 2π2\pi. In this paper several new examples of infinitesimally flexible cone-manifolds are constructed. The basic idea is that the double of an infinitesimally flexible polyhedron is an infinitesimally flexible cone-manifold. With some additional effort, we are able to construct infinitesimally flexible cone-manifolds without vertices and with all cone angles larger than 2π2\pi.

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@article{arxiv.0910.2876,
  title  = {Examples of infinitesimally flexible 3--dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifolds},
  author = {Ivan Izmestiev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.2876},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

16 pages, 5 figures; Section 1.2 expanded, references added