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Thurston's 24 questions: All settled?
Thurston's 1982 article on three-dimensional manifolds1 ends with $24$ "open questions":
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Two naive questions from an outsider:
(1) Have all $24$ now been resolved?
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Is the cut locus of a generic point in a hyperbolic manifold a generic polyhedron?
Let $p\in M$ be a point in a closed riemannian manifold $M$. Recall that the cut locus of $p$ is the subset of $M$ consisting of all points that are connected to $p$ by at least 2 distance-minimizing ...
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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 ...