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The smallest hyperbolic 6-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

By gluing together copies of an all-right angled Coxeter polytope a number of open hyperbolic 6-manifolds with Euler characteristic -1 are constructed. They are the first known examples of hyperbolic 6-manifolds having the smallest possible volume.

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@article{arxiv.math/0410474,
  title  = {The smallest hyperbolic 6-manifolds},
  author = {Brent Everitt and John Ratcliffe and Steven Tschantz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0410474},
  year   = {2007}
}

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More details added in the last section. To appear in Electronic Research Announcements of the AMS