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Maximum entropy distribution in the hyperbolic plane with given “mean” and “variance”

On the Euclidean sphere, by defining suitable analogs of the mean and variance in terms of the first circular moment, it can be shown that the von Mises distribution is the maximum entropy ...
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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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Covering hyperbolic manifolds by round balls

This question is a natural follow up to the question asked here. I think it should not be too hard to answer it (negatively) in dimension 3, but higher dimensions will be probably challenging. Let $M$...
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Is the space of Euclidean polyhedra with a fixed $1$-skeleton connected?

Let $\mathcal{A}_\Gamma$ be the space of convex (non-degenerate) Euclidean polyhedra with $1$-skeleton a certain polyhedral graph $\Gamma$. This space can be seen as a subset of $\mathcal{Gr}_2(\...
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Can you cover a genus a billion hyperbolic surface with 15 balls?

Here's a question I was wondering about this week. Not sure how interesting it is, but I thought it was kind of curious. Question: Given $k$, is there a number $N=N(k)$ such that if a closed ...
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When does a subgroup of $\operatorname{GL}(n, \mathbb Q)$ have a bounded fundamental domain on $\mathbb R^n$?

$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}$Let $G \subset M_{n\times n~}(\mathbb Z)$ be a finitely generated subgroup of $\GL(n,\mathbb Q)$ (i.e. $g\in G$ is an invertible matrix with entries in $\mathbb Z$). Then $...
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Fixed point free involutions on Riemann surfaces

It is well known that a Riemann surface can have a fixed point free holomorphic involution only if it has odd genus. If it has one, is it unique? More generally, is any fixed point free automorphism ...
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Optimal $\delta$ for Gromov's $\delta$-hyperbolicity of the hyperbolic plane

What is the minimal $\delta$ such that the hyperbolic plane is $\delta$-hyperbolic, in the sense of the four point definition of Gromov? Four point definition of Gromov: A metric space $(X, d)$ is $\...
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Mapping the hyperbolic plane onto the interior of a disk

In Chapter II of his book Non-Euclidean Geometry (1961; first published in Polish, 1956), Stefan Kulczycki defines a mapping of the hyperbolic plane onto the interior of a disk. Its construction ...
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How to tile a plane such that moving from one tile to the next in any of the 8 cardinal directions is the same length?

When tiling the euclidean plane with squares (like most board games), moving diagonally to another tile is longer than moving vertically or horizontally. Is there a tiling such that moving in any of ...
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Cross ratio in hyperbolic geometry

In the rough sketch four concurrent lines are drawn in the Poincaré disk model and in the Euclidean model. If same angles $ (\alpha,\beta,\gamma,\delta) $ are enclosed at respective points of ...
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Hyperbolic length of curve that does not enter a collar

Let $\Sigma$ be a compact surface of genus at least $1$ with one boundary component, equipped with a hyperbolic metric so that the boundary is geodesic. There is a version of the collar lemma that ...
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Explicit description of the group of deck transformations acting on the universal cover of a Riemann Surface

I am finding the explicit description of genus $2$ surface as the upper half plane modulo group of Deck Transformation. I did't find it anywhere. Also, I found a similar question here. But, there is ...
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Hyperbolic metrics and the general Ahlfors-Bers theorem

Let $M$ be an oriented smooth compact 3-manifold with non-empty boundary and hyperbolizable interior such that all boundary components have genus greater than $1$. Denote $N:={\rm int}(M)$ and $$HM_{...
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Statements related to Thurston's work on the surface

If we have simple closed curves $\alpha$ and $\beta$ on a surface $\Sigma_g$, the intersection number $i(\alpha ,\beta)$ is defined to be the minimal cardinality of $\alpha_1\cap\beta_1$ as $\alpha_1$ ...
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Gromov hyperbolicity constant vs. Gromov-Hausdorff distance to a tree

Let $X$ be a compact, geodesic metric space which is Gromov hyperbolic with a constant $\delta>0$. To fix scaling, let us also assume that $X$ has diameter $1$. To fix a definition of Gromov ...
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Efficiently find at least one lattice point on hyperbola of equation $axy+bx+cy+d=0$

I need an algorithm to efficiently find at least one lattice point on a hyperbola of equation $axy+bx+cy+d=0$. Lattice point means integer coordinates and equation with integer means diophantine ...
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Equations defining hyperbolic geodesics in $\mathbb C \setminus\{0,1\}$

Let $X=\mathbb C\setminus\{0,1\}$, equipped with the hyperbolic structure it inherits from Klein's modular $\lambda$ function $\lambda:\mathbb H \to X$. In each (non-peripheral and nontrivial) free-...
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What is the name of this geometric structure, where we identify each sphere of vision with the sphere at infinity?

If you consider hyperbolic $n$-space $H^n$, modeled by the open unit ball $B^n \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, then given any two distinct points $x_1$, $x_2$ in $H^n$, there is a natural way of identifying ...
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When do the lengths of simple closed curves determine a hyperbolic surface?

Consider hyperbolic metrics on $\Sigma_g$ a closed orientable surface of genus $g$. Let $[\gamma_1] , \cdots, [\gamma_n]$ be a finite collection of isotopy classes of simple closed curves on $\Sigma_g$...
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2 dimensional Hausdorff measure and area measure on the hyperbolic plane

$\newcommand{\diam}{\operatorname{diam}}$From the Encyclopedia of Mathematics, the Hausdorff measure on a generic metric space (X,d) can be defined using $H^\alpha_\delta (E):=\omega_\alpha \inf \{\...
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Exponential map and optimization

Apologies in advance for being somewhat vague. I'm trying to get pointers to establish a connection between a common trick used in practice in optimization, and the exponential map in differential ...
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Absolute and relative tilings of the hyperbolic plane

In Conway's Symmetries of Things on p. 265 I found these two tilings of the hyperbolic plane with the same vertex configuration $(3.5.3.5.3)$ (resp. vertex figure, as Conway calls it). The ...
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What is sequential boundary of a $\delta$-hyperbolic space and how is the Gromov product extended to the boundary?

I have been reading up on $\delta$-hyperbolic spaces. But I am not getting a clear idea of sequential boundary of $\delta$-hyperbolic spaces and how the Gromov product is extended to it. Could ...
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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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Cusps of hyperbolic surfaces under finite covers

The following statement seems true, but I don't know a proof or a reference for it (and I would like one). Let $\Gamma< \operatorname{PSL}(2,\mathbb R)$ be a nonuniform lattice with one cusp. We ...
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Weil-Petersson metric with respect to covering

Let $S$ be a closed oriented surface of genus $g\geq 2$. Consider the Teichmuller space $T(S)$. Let $d_t$ be the Teichmuller metric and $d_{WP}$ be the Weil-Petersson metric on $T(S)$. Let $P:S_1\...
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What is the representation of the generators of the triangle group for the uniform (4 4 4) tiling of hyperbolic disk as Mobius transformations?

I wonder how can one describe the generators of the triangle group for the tesselation of Poincare unit disk by triangles with angles $\pi/4, \pi/4 , \pi/4 $ in terms of the action of the modular ...
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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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Presentations of $\mathbf{PGL}_3(\mathbb{F}_q)$ by three involutions

If I am not mistaken, the group $\mathbf{PGL}_3(\mathbb{F}_q)$, with $\mathbb{F}_q$ the finite field with $q$ elements, can be generated by three involutions. Where could I find such representations ? ...
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Presentations of $\mathbf{𝐏𝐆𝐋}_3(\mathbb{F}_2)$ by three involutions, 2

I am searching for a presentation of the group $\mathbf{PGL}_3(\mathbb{F}_2)$ for which the generators are involutions $a, b, c$, and such that the following relations are present [among extra ...
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Bounded subsets of $\delta$-hyperbolic metric spaces

I was reading this book by Coorneart, Delzant, and Papadopoulos. I am stuck with this proposition in Chapter 1 (Proposition 1.5) If $Y$ is a bounded $\delta$-hyperbolic subset of $X$, then $X$ is $\...
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Reference for openness of subspace of PSL(2,R) representation variety corresponding to Teichmüller space

$\DeclareMathOperator\PSL{PSL}\DeclareMathOperator\Hom{Hom}$Let $S$ be a compact oriented surface with nonempty boundary. There are two variants of Teichmuller space for $S$ you might consider: The ...
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What is the explicit relationship between the shape parameters and the holonomy of a hyperbolic ideal triangulation?

Let $K$ be a hyperbolic knot in $S^3$. One way to describe the hyperbolic structure is to give a discrete, faithful representation $\pi_1(S^3 \setminus K) \to \operatorname{PSL}_2(\mathbb C)$, the ...
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An explicit (maybe algebraic) isometric embedding of the double torus with constant curvature K = -1

The following question is related to this previous question, Canonical immersion of the double torus: Is there any known explicit (maybe algebraic) isometric embedding of a genus 2 surface endowed ...
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Number of Fuchsian groups with same trace field

Let $\Gamma,\Sigma\subset \mathrm{SL}_2({\mathbb R})$ be cocompact arithmetic subgroups. They are called commensurable in the wider sense, if there exists $g\in \mathrm{SL}_2({\mathbb R})$, such that ...
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Continuity of conformal grafting, wrt the (infinite type) surface

Say I have two closed hyperbolic surfaces $X,Y$ and a smooth, $(1+\epsilon)$-bilipschitz map $f : X \to Y$ for some small $\epsilon$. Pick a simple closed curve $c \subset X$, and let $X',Y'$ be the ...
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Hyperbolicity of twist knots

In Example 1.4 of his book Invariants of Homology 3-Spheres, Saveliev noted that twist knots $K_n$ of type $(2n+2)_1$ are all hyperbolic. Here, $K_1$ is the figure-eight knot $4_1$ and $K_2$ is the ...
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Invariants in spherical and pseudospherical triangle trigonometry

We know the spherical surface invariant in $\mathbb R^3$ $$ \dfrac{\sin a }{\sin A } =\dfrac {\sin b }{\sin B } =\dfrac{\sin c }{\sin C } =\dfrac{\sqrt{1-\cos^2 A -\cos^2 B-\cos^2 C +2\cos A \cos B \...
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Systole of Riemann surfaces of genus $g$

In Buser and Sarnak's "On the period matrix of a Riemann surface of large genus", we get $$\frac4{3}\le\limsup_{g\rightarrow\infty}\frac{\max\{\operatorname{sys}(S)|S\in\mathcal{M}_g\}}{\log ...
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What does hyperbolicity of curves buy us in the arithmetic context?

This is going to be a fairly vague question but hopefully it will have concrete answers: There is this recurrent phenomenon in the arithmetic of curves (possibly stacky,affine) where there is a "...
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Maximally symmetric hyperbolic 3-manifolds with finite volume

In physics, standard cosmology is build with simple maximally symmetric 3-manifolds (spacelike time-slices of constant curvature, e.g. $S^3$ or less popular the hyperbolic space $H^3$). Since $S^3$ ...
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Cutting up the Bring surface into six pairs of pants

The Bring sextic, with 120 automorphisms, is the numerically most symmetric compact Riemann surface of genus 4. To cut it up into six pairs of pants, we need to cut along nine disjoint geodesic loops....
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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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Associativity property of the gyrobarycenter

I'm using Ungar's terminology and notations. In the open unit ball of $\mathbb{R}^n$, let $GB(A_1, \ldots, A_N; m_1, \ldots, m_N)$ be the gyrobarycenter of the points $(A_1, \ldots, A_N)$ with ...
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Surfaces with non-constant negative curvature

Are there any nice models of surfaces with non-constant negative curvature, analogous to the Poincare disk for constant negative curvature. I have found lots of general results and theory but no nice ...
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Coordinates for Laminations: geometric versus shear

Let $S$ be an orientable surface with a triangulation T. A lamination $\ell$ is a simple closed curve on $S$, up to isotopy. We will assume that $\ell$ is drawn in such a way that it intersects the ...
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Bounds on convergence of two orbits in the limit set of a Schottky group

Suppose we have two points in the limit set of a Schottky group, $x,y\in \Lambda(\Gamma)$. Consider the orbits of those points under a primitive subset $\Gamma'$ of $\Gamma,$ that is, one that does ...
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Mostow Rigidity Theorem and reconstruction from fundamental group

The Mostow Rigidity Theorem is phrased in terms of a relationship between isometries and isomorphisms of fundamental groups, which raises an obvious question. Given the fundamental group of a complete ...
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Explicit check of the invariance of the Weyl-Petersson form

Using Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates, the Weyl-Petersson metric can be written as $\omega_{WP} = \sum_{i} d\ell_i \wedge d \tau_i,$ where $i$ is an index labelling the curves of a pants decomposition ...

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