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Finding Constant Curvature Metrics on Surfaces without full power of Uniformization
(I rewrote this question, hopefully it's more clear now. It's still the same question, but I reordered its parts.)
Let S be a surface (possibly non-compact, but no boundary). It seems that there are ...
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Alternate proofs that hyperbolic plane can’t be isometrically immersed in $\mathbb{R}^3$
A famous theorem of Hilbert says that there is no smooth immersion of the hyperbolic plane in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. The expositions of this that I know of (in eg do Carmo’s book on curves/...
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Lamination as limit of arcs
I am reading Bonahon's notes on closed curves, in particular the part about hyperbolic laminations. In his notes Bonahon illustrates some examples as why laminations should be "limit curves" on ...
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Why simple closed curves are dense in $\mathcal{PML}_0(S)$?
I have another question about laminations on surfaces. As usual let $\mathcal{S}$ be the set of homotopy classes of simple closed curves in $S$ and $\mathcal{PML}_0(S)$ be the set of projective ...
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Understanding $\kappa$-cones
I recently came across the concept of a $\kappa$-cones of a metric space (Chapter I.5.2) of Bridson and Haefliger's book. In their Proposition 5.8, the provide some intuition of $\kappa$-cones by ...
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Questions on Thurston's metric on Teichmüller space
I'm reading the famous "Minimal stretch maps between hyperbolic surfaces" by William Thurston and I'm trying to understand the key theorem 8.1. I have many unclear points so I hope someone can help me ...
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Name of the "s" parameter in Ungar's theory of hyperbolic geometry
I have done a R package which implements Ungar's approach to hyperbolic geometry, for the hyperboloid model. In this theory, there is a parameter $s>0$ which controls the curvature of the ...
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Doubly ruled surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space
A well-known theorem of classical surface theory states that the only doubly ruled surfaces in Euclidean 3-space are planes, 1-sheeted hyperboloids and hyperbolic paraboloids. There are a number of ...
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Structure of hyperbolic manifolds of finite volume
Let $X$ be a hyperbolic manifold of finite volume.
I want to prove that $X$ has ends of the form $N\times \mathbb{R}$ where $N$ has a finite covering by a nilmanifold and $\pi_1N\to \pi_1 X$ is ...
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Triangle area on surfaces of constant curvature
I am looking for an elementary derivation of the formula for the area of a geodesic triangle lying in a surface of constant curvature $\kappa$, depending on the angles and side length.
Of course, the ...
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Bound on the distance from points to the boundary of a hyperbolic surface
Fix $\epsilon\in\mathbb{R}_{>0}$, $\Sigma$ a surface with boundary and let $\mathcal{T}_{\Sigma}(L_{1},...,L_{n})$ denote the Teichmüller space of hyperbolic structures of $\Sigma$ with geodesic ...
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What’s the form of Gram matrix for right-angled hexagon
Informally, right-angled hyperbolic hexagon is a hyperbolic triangle with vertices outside infinity. I think there should be a Gram matrix for it, and what does it looks like?
(The Gram matrix here ...
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Stable norm on hyperbolic surfaces
For a hyperbolic surface $S$ and a homology class $h\in H_1(S)$ its stable norm is defined as $\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{n}l(nh)$, where $l(nh)$ means the minimal length among all closed geodesics ...
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Comparison theorem for Lambert quadrilateral
A Lambert quadrilateral is a quadrilateral three of whose angles are right angles. And in 2-d hyperbolic space $\mathbb H^2$, we have nice formulas for the fourth angle.
If $AOBF$ is a Lambert ...
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Uniform continuity of length function on geodesic currents
I'm starting to study geodesic currents and I have a question concerning uniform continuity.
Let's take $S$ a closed surface of genus $g$ and $GC(S)$ the space of geodesic currents on $S$ (as it is ...
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Why is $\mathcal{PML}_0(S)$ compact?
I'm starting to study geodesic laminations on hyperbolic surfaces and in particular I'm focusing my attention on $\mathcal{PML}_0(S)$, the space of projective classes of measured geodesic laminations ...
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What is the metric on the Fuchsian model? [closed]
Let $\mathbb{H}$ be the upper half plane, and $\Gamma < SL(2, \mathbb{R})$ be a Fuchsian group. How is the distance between any two points $x, y \in \mathbb{H} / \Gamma$ in the Fuchsian model ...
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Dirichlet polyhedra for hyperbolic manifolds
Let $H$ be a simply-connected, complete
space of constant negative curvature, that
is, a hyperbolic space, $\Gamma$ a discrete group of
isometries, and and $M=H/\Gamma$ its quotient space;
we assume ...
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A conjecture of Thurston and possibly Weeks too
What is the status of the following conjecture:
"... [w]hen the shortest simple closed geodesics are repeatedly removed from any complete hyperbolic 3-manifold of finite volume, eventually one ...
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Is there a similar formula in spherical and hyperbolic geometry as Euclidean Geometry? [closed]
In an Euclidean plane, we know that the area of a triangle is determined by the length of base and the height, i.e.,
$$
S_{\Delta}=\frac{1}{2}a.h,
$$
where $a$ is the length of base and the $h$ is ...
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