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Napoleon in isolation

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Napoleon's theorem in elementary geometry describes how certain linear operations on plane polygons of arbitrary shape always produce regular polygons. More generally, certain triangulations of a polygon that tiles R^2 admit deformations which keep fixed the symmetry group of the tiling. This gives rise to isolation phenomena in cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds, where hyperbolic Dehn surgeries on some collection of cusps leaves the geometric structure at some other collection of cusps unchanged.

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@article{arxiv.math/9909106,
  title  = {Napoleon in isolation},
  author = {Danny Calegari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9909106},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures; minor changes. Accepted for publication in PAMS