Questions tagged [hyperbolic-geometry]
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Does there exist a Haken manifold where all its incompressible surfaces are non-separating?
Every non-zero element in $H_2(M,\mathbb Z)$ corresponds to an incompressible surface. So these surfaces are non-separating. But I'm interested in knowing about separating incompressible surfaces. A ...
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Are there infinitely many commensurable classes of finite-covolume hyperbolic Coxeter groups?
Allcock(2006) proved that
there are infinitely many finite-covolume (resp. cocompact) Coxeter groups acting on hyperbolic space $H^n$ for every $n\le 19$ (resp. $n\le 6$).
His main technique of ...
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What is known about exceptional slopes of hyperbolic knots?
For $K$ a hyperbolic knot in $S^3$, a rational number $p/q$ is an exceptional slope if the manifold $M_{p/q}$ obtained from $(p,q)$-Dehn surgery on $K$ does not admit a hyperbolic structure.
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In the $\mathbb{H}^3$ upper half space model, is a hemiellipsoid perpendicular to the plane at infinity a minimal surface?
Given a Jordan curve on the $\mathbb{H}^3$ boundary at infinity, there is a minimal surface (topological disk) in $\mathbb{H}^3$ with the curve as its asymptotic boundary (page.mi.fu-berlin.de/...
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How close can closed geodesics be?
A consequence of the famous Jørgensen inequality is that there is a lower bound for the distance between closed geodesics in hyperbolic three-manifolds: for any $R>0$ there is a c>0 such ...
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Hilbert 16th problem via hyperbolic geometry
More than 16 years ago, I heard from someone that he thinks that there is a possible relation between Hilbert's 16th problem(for $n=2$) and Hyperbolic geometry. He says that a ...
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Can a hyperbolic manifold be a product?
I was interested in whether a manifold which admits a metric of constant sectional curvature can be homotopy equivalent to a product of non-contractible manifolds. Of course, there are three cases: ...
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Induced homeomorphism from a quasi-isometry between hyperbolic spaces
Theorem. Let $\phi:X\rightarrow Y$ be a quasi-isometry between two (Gromov) hyperbolic spaces $X$ and $Y$. If $X$ and $Y$ are proper, then ϕ induces a homeomorphism between their boundaries.
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Hyperbolic 3-manifolds inside algebraic varieties
I have a hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ that I'd like to see sit inside a complex algebraic variety $V$ as beautifully and snugly as possible. I don't want to specify attributes of "beauty" (e.g.,...
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Can we cut and rotate a particular region of a hyperbolic 3-manifold to get another (non-homeomorphic) hyperbolic 3-manifold?
I'm trying to learn more about hyperbolic 3-manifolds, in particular the geometric implications of doing hyperbolic Dehn surgery to suitable knot complements.
Following this paper by Christian ...
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Comparing different layered structures for fibered 3-manifolds: example request.
Let's consider a fibering hyperbolic 3-manifold obtained as a mapping torus over some hyperbolic surface with pseudo-Anosov monodromy, and let's suppose that the surface is punctured at the singular ...
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Complete geodesics on hyperbolic a pair of pants
I have asked this question on MSE. But I think Mo is a better place to ask my question. Here is the link to my question on MSE. I will rewrite it here:
I am trying to understand the article by Maryam ...
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Relations between some works by Deligne-Mostow and Thurston
Happy new year 2016!
A coworker and I are interested in the relations between the works of Deligne and Mostow ([DM] and [M]) on the monodromy of Appell-Lauricella hypergeometric functions (Publ. ...
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Poincaré disk model: is this locus a known curve?
Please, consider a line segment $AB$ in the Poincaré disk model. Now, consider the set $S$ of all point $P$ in the disk such that the angle $\angle APB$ is constant.
Question: is $S$ a known curve?
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Best source for classification of right-angled hyperbolic hexagons
A standard fact that underlies the Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates on Teichmuller space is the fact that for all triples $(a,b,c)$ of positive real numbers, there exists a unique hyperbolic hexagon whose ...
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Bers' constant for compact hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary
The clasical Bers' theorem about pants decomposition says that any compact Riemann surface of genus $g \geq 2$ has a pants decomposition such that every cutting geodesic in this decomposition is of ...
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Decay of cusps in geometrically finite groups
Let $X=\mathbb{H}^{n}/\Gamma$ be a quotient of hyperbolic space of a geometric finite subgroup. Let $\mu$ be the Bowen-Margulis measure on the unit tangent bundle, and $m$ its projection to $X$.
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A coincidence between the Lambert cube, Lobell polyhedron, and hyperbolic 3-manifolds?
I. Lambert cube $\mathfrak L(\alpha_1,\alpha_2,\alpha_3)$
In this paper (p.8), we find the volume $V$ of the hyperbolic Lambert cube for the special case $\alpha=\alpha_1 = \alpha_2 = \alpha_3$ as
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Kleinian groups containing an isomorphic copy of itself
Is there any example of a Kleinian group (acting on $\mathbb{H}^n$, $n \ge 3$) that contains a finite index isomorphic copy of itself? Here I don't consider Kleinian groups that only have parabolic ...
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Distances between boundaries in a hyperbolic pants
Consider a hyperbolic pair of pants with totally-geodesic boundaries of lengths $l_i$ for $i \in \{1,2,3\}$. For any two distinct boundary components, is the length of the shortest geodesic connecting ...
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Standard (special) spines and hyperbolic structure on 3-manifolds
My question relates to constructing angled triangulations or hyperbolic triangulations for $3$--manifolds. Briefly, an angle triangulation can be considered as an assignment of a real number (called ...
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Can the Chern-Simons invariant of a cusped hyperbolic $3$-manfiold be defined mod $\mathbb Z$?
For a closed hyperbolic $3$-manifold $M$, the Chern-Simons invariant $CS(M)$ can be defined as an element of $\mathbb R/\mathbb Z$. When $M$ is cusped it can still be defined, but is now only defined ...
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Thickness and hierarchical hyperbolicity
Thick metric spaces were introduced by Behrstock, Drutu and Mosher, see here. Hierarchically hyperbolic spaces were introduced by Behrstock, Hagen and Sisto, see here.
I've heard that it is open ...
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Negatively curved metrics minimizing the length of a homotopy class of simple closed curves
Good afternoon everyone !
I have the following question of Riemannian geometry :
Let $M$ be a smooth closed orientable manifold of dimension at least $3$, and let $\mathcal{T} = \{ $ smooth ...
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Any way to prove Prime Number Theorem using Hyperbolic Geometry? [closed]
The prime number theorem says that the density of prime numbers is inverse as the number of digits of $n$:
$$\displaystyle \frac{\{1 \leq k \leq n : \text{ prime } \}}{n} \approx \frac{1}{\log n}$$
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A criterion for loxodromicity in Gromov-hyperbolic spaces
Recall that an isometry of a Gromov-hyperbolic space $X$ is called loxodromic if it has exactly two fixed points on the Gromov boundary $\partial X$, one being "attracting" and the other &...
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Hyperbolic space embeds into Wasserstein space
Fix a positive integer $n$, let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the $n$-dimensional hyperbolic space, $r>0$, $x\in \mathbb{H}^n$ and consider the closed (compact) geodesic ball $B_{\mathbb{H}^n}(x,r)$. Are ...
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Analogy of Liouville conformal mapping theorem with Mostow rigidity?
I often hear mention of two theorems, Mostow's rigidity theorem and Liouville's theorem on conformal mappings, which superficially sound similar: they say that a set of geometric structures is, if ...
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Rational stable translation length
Let $G$ be a finitely generated group and $S$ a finite generating set and consider the word metric associated to $S$.
If $g\in G$, define its stable translation length as $l(g)=\lim_n \frac{d(e,g^n)}{...
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For a 3D Apollonian packing, do we really know that the Hausdorff dimension of the complement is approximated by the growth rate of curvature?
The fractal dimension of the 3D Apollonian packing is computed in this paper.
In the introduction, the authors cite three of Boyd's paper (Ref 2, 5, 6) to support that the fractal dimension (...
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Purely analytic proof of the Nielsen-Thurston classification theorem
I hope this question is appropriate for the site. I've been looking at the expositions of Bers' proof of the Nielsen-Thurston classification given in Hubbard's Teichmüller Theory
and Applications to ...
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Locally symmetric spaces: spectrum of the Laplacian
Let $M = \Gamma\backslash X$ denote a locally symmetric space of non-compact type and $\Delta$ the Laplacian on $L^2(M)$.
It is known that the spectrum of $\Delta$ decomposes into finitely many
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Closed geodesics on a closed, negatively curved Riemannian manifold
I have been searching for a while for a proof of the following fact: For a closed Riemannian manifold, all of whose sectional curvatures are negative, each free homotopy class of loops contains a ...
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Does every hyperbolic 3 manifold with totally geodesic boundary has some finite covering space with more than one boundary component?
I am thinking about the question that: if we double a hyperbolic 3 manifold along its boundary, will the rank of fundemental group of the resulting closed manifold be strictly larger than before?\
The ...
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$S^3 \setminus S^1$ doesn't have hyperbolic structure
I need to prove that $M = S^3 \setminus S^1$ doesn't admit any metric of constantly negative sectional curvature s.t. $M$ is complete respect for this metric. I know that it is consequence of famous ...
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Do quasi convex hyperbolic subgroups remain quasi convex after adding redundant generators?
We know now that hyperbolic 3-manifolds virtually embed into right-angled Artin groups as quasiconvex subgroups. Also, quasiconvexity depends on the generating set.
I have been constructing a space ...
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Is there an explicit bound on the number of tetrahedra needed to triangulate a hyperbolic 3-manifold of volume V?
Is there an explicit bound on the number of tetrahedra needed to triangulate a hyperbolic 3-manifold of volume $V$? Or more generally a hyperbolic $n$-manifold of volume $V$?
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Given a link $L\subset S^3$ how to construct a link $L'$ whose complement have hyperbolic structure?
Thurston claimed that almost all closed 3-manifolds are hyperbolic. To support this, he said that every closed 3-manifold is obtained by Dehn surgery along some link whose complement is hyperbolic. ...
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injectivity radius of hyperbolic surface
Given a positive real number $l$. Does there exist a closed hyperbolic surface $X$ so that injectivity radius not less than $l$?
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Definition of cusped manifold?
There is much talk about hyperbolic cusped 3-manifolds, but almost no definition of what a cusped manifold is.
One definition I found was that it is a result of a parabolic transformation on H^n, ...
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For an arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold group, when is its trace field not its invariant trace field?
Edit: In my original post I failed to require the group to be a manifold group. The answer below from @BenLinowitz works in that case. I am really interested though in when the group is torsion-free, ...
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Examples of groups that are unknown to be acylindrically hyperbolic
Let $G$ be a group. We say that $G$ is acylindrically hyperbolic (for short, AH) if $G$ admits an isometric, acylindrical, and non-elementary action on some Gromov hyperbolic space $X$.
Here is the ...
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Andreev's Theorem and Thurston's hyperbolization theorem
I am attempting to get to grips with Thurston's hyperbolization theorem for Haken $3$--manifolds. In particular I was looking at the section related to gluing up along hierarchy surfaces in Otal, Jean-...
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Arithmetic Fuchsian group
I have the following questions: Are all Fuchsian groups of signature $(0;2,2,2,\infty)$ arithmetic? What is known about the trace fields of these groups?
Best, K.
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If rational points are like entire curves, then what do algebraic points correspond to
I read somewhere that if $X$ is a projective variety of general type over a number field $K$, then rational points are an analogue of entire curves $\mathbf{C}\to X^{an}$ (with $X^{an}$ the ...
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Bolyai's construction
Here is Bolyai's construction (in Klein model), which I learned recently from answer of Will Jagy to this question.
It is a Compass-and-straightedge construction of asymptotically parallel line in ...
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Hyperbolic manifolds with infinite cyclic fundamental group
It is a well known fact that there is a correspondence between complete hyperbolic $n$-manifolds up to isometry and discrete subgroups of isometries of the hyperbolic space $\mathbb{H}^n$ that act ...
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Riemann Theta Function On Hyperbolic Riemann Surfaces
The Riemann theta function for a genus $g$ closed Riemann surface with period matrix $\tau=[\tau_{ij}]$ is defined by
$$\theta(\{z_1,\cdots,z_g\}|\tau)=\Sigma_{n\in\mathbb{Z}^g}e^{\pi i(n\cdot\tau\...
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Fundamental groups of hyperbolic $4$-manifolds and $\rm CAT(0)$ cube complexes
Suppose $M^4$ is a compact hyperbolic (i.e. curvature $-1$) $4$-manifold and $\Gamma\cong\pi_1(M^4)$.
Is there any expectation whether $\Gamma$ acts properly and co-compactly on a $\rm CAT(0)$ cube ...
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Geodesic flow on infinite surfaces
The geodesic flow on a compact hyperbolic surface (i.e. a surface with a riemannian metric of constant curvature $-1$) has been well-studied, in particular it has been known for a long time that it is ...