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Global rigidity of 3-dimensional cone-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2011-11-10 v3 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We prove global rigidity for compact hyperbolic and spherical cone-3-manifolds with cone-angles π\leq \pi (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\leq \pi, possibly with boundary consisting of totally geodesic hyperbolic turnovers. To that end we first generalize our local rigidity result to the setting of hyperbolic cone-3-manifolds of finite volume as above. We then use the geometric techniques developed by Boileau, Leeb and Porti to deform the cone-manifold structure to a complete non-singular or a geometric orbifold structure, where global rigidity holds due to Mostow-Prasad rigidity in the hyperbolic case, resp. a result of de Rham in the spherical case. This strategy has already been implemented successfully by Kojima in the compact hyperbolic case if the singular locus is a link using Hodgson-Kerckhoff local rigidity.

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@article{arxiv.math/0504117,
  title  = {Global rigidity of 3-dimensional cone-manifolds},
  author = {Hartmut Weiss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0504117},
  year   = {2011}
}

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