Global rigidity of 3-dimensional cone-manifolds
Abstract
We prove global rigidity for compact hyperbolic and spherical cone-3-manifolds with cone-angles (which are not Seifert fibered in the spherical case), furthermore for a class of hyperbolic cone-3-manifolds of finite volume with cone-angles , 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.
Cite
@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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revised version