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Thurston's 24 questions: All settled?
Thurston's 1982 article on three-dimensional manifolds1 ends with $24$ "open questions":
$\cdots$
Two naive questions from an outsider:
(1) Have all $24$ now been resolved?
(2)...
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Hyperbolic Volume and Chern-Simons
In the paper ``Analytic Continuation Of Chern-Simons Theory'' (arXiv:1001.2933) Witten postulates that hyperbolic volume of 3-dimensional manifold coincides with the value of the Chern-Simons ...
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How does hyperbolicity of space time affect our lives?
My main research has been in hyperbolic geometry and geometric group theory. I always thought that the only real "application" of my work was that the universe is a 3-manifold.
But recently I found ...
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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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Diameter of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Is there a good method to estimate the diameter of a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold?
I am particularly interested in know the diameter of the Weeks manifold.
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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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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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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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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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Does every hyperbolic, almost-transitive, triangulation of $\mathbb{R}^n$ have boundary homeomorphic with $\mathbb{S}^{n-1}$?
Question 1: Let $T$ be a triangulation of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Suppose that the 1-skeleton of $T$ endowed with the graph-metric (i.e. each 1-cell is given length 1) is Gromov-hyperbolic. Suppose moreover ...
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Compact open topology on the space of geodesics
I'm new in the field, so I'm sorry in advance if my question is too naive.
Let's consider $S$ a surface of genus $g\ge 2$ with an hyperbolic metric $g$. Let's call $\mathcal{S}(S)$ the set of closed ...
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Hyperbolic 3 manifold with trivial deformation of flat conformal structures
Does there exist closed hyperbolic three manifold which is locally rigid in the space of its all conformally flat structures? If so could someone provide examples?
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Does the Weeks manifold have the smallest volume among all finite volume oriented hyperbolic 3-manifolds?
It is a result of Chinburg-Friedman-Jones-Reid that the arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold of smallest volume is the Weeks manifold.
There is also a result of Milley that says that if $N$ is a closed ...
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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 connection between $\mathrm{AdS}_2$ and the hyperbolic plane $\mathbb{H}^2$?
What is the connection between $\mathrm{AdS}_2$ and the hyperbolic plane $\mathbb{H}^2$?
Some sources seem to imply that they are the same, i.e. having at least the same symmetry group $\mathrm{SL}(2,...
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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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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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How to increase the injectivity radius function of a hyperbolic 3 manifold of finite volume?
Let $N$ be an oriented hyperbolic 3-manifold of finite volume and let $\Delta \subset N$ be a smooth connected compact subdomain such that the restriction of the injectivity radius function of $N$ to $...
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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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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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Length of shortest geodesic and Cheeger's isoperimetric constant for a special genus 2 surface
Let us take two copies of $ Y $-pieces [ or pair of pants ] with each boundary geodesic of length $ l $, and glue them together without any twisting to obtain a genus 2 closed orientable hyperbolic ...
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