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Finite-volume hyperbolic 4-manifolds that share a fundamental polyhedron

Geometric Topology 2016-09-07 v1

Abstract

It is known that the volume function for hyperbolic manifolds of dimension 3\geq 3 is finite-to-one. We show that the number of nonhomeomorphic hyperbolic 4-manifolds with the same volume can be made arbitrarily large. This is done by constructing a sequence of finite-sided finite-volume polyhedra with side-pairings that yield manifolds. In fact, we show that arbitrarily many nonhomeomorphic hyperbolic 4-manifolds may share a fundamental polyhedron. As a by-product of our examples, we also show in a constructive way that the set of volumes of hyperbolic 4-manifolds contains the set of even integral multiples of 4π2/34\pi^2/3. This is ``half'' the set of possible values for volumes, which is the integral multiples of 4π2/34\pi^2/3 due to the Gauss-Bonnet formula.

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@article{arxiv.math/9705217,
  title  = {Finite-volume hyperbolic 4-manifolds that share a fundamental polyhedron},
  author = {Dubravko Ivanšić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9705217},
  year   = {2016}
}
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