Hyperbolic manifolds with polyhedral boundary
Abstract
Let be a compact 3-manifold with boundary which admits a complete, convex co-compact hyperbolic metric. For each hyperbolic metric on such that is smooth and strictly convex, the induced metric on has curvature , and each such metric on is obtained for a unique choice of . A dual statement is that, for each as above, the third fundamental form of has curvature , and its closed geodesics which are contractible in have length . Conversely, any such metric on is obtained for a unique choice of . We are interested here in the similar situation where is not smooth, but rather looks locally like an ideal polyhedron in . We can give a fairly complete answer to the question on the third fundamental form -- which in this case concerns the dihedral angles -- and some partial results about the induced metric. This has some by-products, like an affine piecewise flat structure on the Teichmueller space of a surface with some marked points, or an extension of the Koebe circle packing theorem to many 3-manifolds with boundary.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0111136,
title = {Hyperbolic manifolds with polyhedral boundary},
author = {Jean-Marc Schlenker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0111136},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Updated version on http://picard.ups-tlse.fr/~schlenker/texts/papers.html New version: several typos corrected, a few remarks added