Questions tagged [hyperbolic-geometry]
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Ideal triangulations of $3$-manifolds with "cusps" of genus $\ge 2$
Typically when one thinks about ideal triangulations of a $3$-manifold the link of each ideal vertex is a circle, so the ideal points correspond to toroidal cusps; alternatively, one can truncate the ...
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Subgroups of hyperbolic groups
Let $G$ be a finitely generated hyperbolic group, and let $H \leq G$ be a subgroup whose profinite completion is finitely generated. Must $H$ be finitely generated?
In view of Ian Agol's answer, I ...
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center of fundamental group of finite volume-hyperbolic orbifold
Is center of a fundamental group of finite volume-hyperbolic n-orbifold trivial?
Is there a good reference that the proof is wriiten?
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Softwares for drawing hyperbolic surfaces , closed, with boundaries or with punctures ?
In a paper I am in the process of writing in LaTeX, I need to draw and incorporate some diagrams of hyperbolic surfaces in my LaTeX document. Is there any software I can use to draw hyperbolic ...
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Smallest tile to *isohedrally* tessellate the hyperbolic plane
Is there a smallest tile (in terms of diameter) that isohedrally tessellates the hyperbolic plane?
In this question, we ask the same question without the isohedral requirement, and the answer was no. ...
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What is known about maximal free subgroups of surface groups?
Let $\Gamma_g=< a_1,...,a_g,b_1,...,b_g | \prod_{i=1}^g [a_i,b_i]>$ (a surface group). What is known about maximal free subgroups of $\Gamma_g$ for $g>1.$ (I.e. free subgroups which are not ...
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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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Congruence subgroups in arithmetic lattices of $\mathrm{SO}(n,1)$
I am currently reading the paper Deformation Spaces Associated to Hyperbolic Manifolds by Johnson and Millson, Section 7, and the highlighted bit below has been giving me difficulty:
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Ergodicity and mixing of geodesic and horocyclic flows
I am reading a theorem about the ergodicity and mixing of geodesic and horocyclic flows on unit tangent bundle of a compact hyperbolic surface. I find that there are two ways (be listed below) to ...
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What is the limit set of a hyperbolic lattice?
My claim is as follows:
Let $\Gamma$ be a discrete subgroup of $\operatorname{Isom}(\Bbb{H}^{n})$, the isometries of hyperbolic $n$-space. If $\Gamma$ is a lattice in $\operatorname{Isom}(\Bbb{H}^n)...
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Synthetic approach to hyperbolic geometry?
Hello,
I am looking for a source that discusses and teaches hyperbolic geometry from a synthetic approach (As opposed to the common analytinc approach in the poincare disk). I am looking for ...
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Ricci flow negative curvature
We denote by $\mathbb{H}^n$ the hyperbolic plane of dimension $n$.
I don't know much about the Ricci flow, so my first question is probably naïve : can one define a normalized Ricci flow such that the ...
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Teichmuller space for surface with cone points
Working on my current research problem, Teichmuller spaces for surfaces with cone points have come into play. It's fairly easy to formulate some of the definitions, a few basic results, etc. To be ...
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Who first used the cross-ratio to describe shapes in hyperbolic geometry?
I was reading this Wikipedia article today:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape#Similarity_classes
and I realized that it strongly resembles the use of coss-ratios as "shape parameters" in hyperbolic ...
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Optimal pants decompositions of a hyperbolic surface
Let $S$ be a hyperbolic surface, which is not the punctured torus or $4$-holed sphere. I am interested in finding a ``geometrically optimal'' pants decomposition on $S$.
Here is a candidate ...
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Is there a concept of Combined Teichmuller space for surfaces with both geodesic boundary and punctures/cusps
If we take a sequence of compact hyperbolic Riemann surface with k geodesic boundary components such that the lengths of the geodesic boundary components go to zero, then in the "limit", we should get ...
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Hyperbolic structure on surfaces with boundary
I have following two questions
1) Let $S$ be a compact oriented surface with (non-empty) boundary. Also assume that the Euler characteristic of $S$ is negative (Thus, $S$ is not disk or annulus). ...
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Rozendorn's Article
I'm researching the isometric dips of the hyperbolic plane and in particular I'm interested in reading the results of Rozendorn who proved that the hyperbolic plane is isometrically immersed in $\...
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Vertices of hyperbolic triangle with given angles
This is probably a well-known problem in hyperbolic geometry, but here goes anyway.
In the Poincar'e upper-half plane model, I am given three angles $\alpha$, $\beta$,
and $\gamma$ with $\alpha+\beta+\...
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volume of complex hyperbolic manifolds
I would like to know if there are in the literature explicit computations of the volume of complex hyperbolic manifolds.
More precisely, let $\mathcal O$ be an imaginary quadratic number field, and ...
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Rotation part of short geodesics in hyperbolic mapping tori
Otal [Sur le nouage des géodésiques dans les variétés hyperboliques. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 320 (1995), no. 7, 847--852.] showed that "short" simple closed geodesics in 3-dimensional ...
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Can hyperbolic surfaces approximate every connected compact metric space?
Let $X$ be a connected compact metric space.
Question: Is there a sequence of compact hyperbolic surfaces (the curvature may differ between surfaces) that converges to $X$ in the Gromov-Hausdorff ...
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Canonically representing the monodromy of a hyperbolic manifold fibered over $S^1$
Let $Y$ be a hyperbolic manifold that fibers over $S^1$, with fibration $\pi:Y \to S^1$ with fiber $\Sigma$. Thurston states that the monodromy $\phi:\Sigma \to
\Sigma$ of this projection is then ...
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Reconciling Sullivan's theorem with the hyperbolic structure of the Figure–8 knot complement
I am interested in the 3-manifolds with hyperbolic structures from the physics (gravity) perspective. I encounter this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9812206.pdf whose Eq. (9) mentions a theorem ...
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Isomorphism between the hyperbolic space and the manifold of SPD matrices with constant determinant
I'm studying properties of the manifold of symmetric positive-definite (SPD) matrices and I've learnt about the following connection to the hyperbolic space [1, Section 2.2], $$\mathcal{P}(n) = \...
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closed geodesics are dense in both hyperbolic surface and unit tangent bundle of hyperbolic surface
Could you please recommend me some references for proofs of this fact: "closed geodesics are dense in both hyperbolic surface and unit tangent bundle of hyperbolic surface". Thanks in advance!
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The action of an S-arithmetic group on the hyperbolic plane
I have a really quick question. I am interested in $G=SL_2(\mathbb{Z}[1/p_1,...,1/p_n])$, where $p_1$,..., $p_n$ are prime numbers. Since $G$ is a subgroup of $SL_2(\mathbb{R})$, it acts in the ...
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Hyperbolic knot complement groups and relative dimension
Let $G$ be a the fundamental group of a hyperbolic knot complement.
Then $G$ is hyperbolic relative to a subgroup $P\cong \mathbb Z \oplus \mathbb Z$.
The knot complement has a $2$-dimensional spine ...
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Matrices generating non-discrete subgroups of SL(2,R)
Jorgensen's inequality $\mid \left(Tr\left(A\right)\right)^2-4\mid+\mid Tr\left[A,B\right]-2\mid\ge 1$ gives a necessary condition for two matrices A,B to generate a discrete subgroup of SL(2,R). Are ...
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Intersection of $\pi_1$-injective surfaces
Let $M$ be a closed non-Haken hyperbolic $3$-manifold. Are there two, nonhomotopic, $\pi_1$-injective closed surfaces in $M$, and which do not intersect?
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Fixed points on boundary of hyperbolic group
Let G be a word-hyperbolic group with torsion and let ∂G be its boundary. Do there exist criteria that imply that all non-trivial finite order elements of G act fixed-point freely on ∂G?
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Finite dimensional spherical representation of $SO(n,1)(\mathbb{R})$
I'm looking for an explicit description of all the finite dimensional irreducible representation of the Lie group $SO(n,1)(\mathbb{R})$. Can you tell me, where I can find this description ? Thank you.
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Volume of the Weeks manifold and of the 5.2 knot complement
Some computations show that the Weeks manifold and the 5.2 knot complement have the same trace field (which is $\mathbb{Q}[x]/(x^3-x+1)$) and the (hyperbolic) volume of the second is 3 times the ...
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Solving equations in hyperbolic groups and subgroups of isometry of a Gromov hyperbolic space
Let $\Gamma$ be a hyperbolic group. Let $g$, $\gamma\in \Gamma$ freely generate a non-abelian semigroup (in particular, they don't commute and have infinite order). Does the equation $g\gamma^n=h^m$ ...
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Isometric immersion of $\mathbb H^2$ into $\mathbb R^\infty$ built by Bieberbach
I'm analyzing the following isometric immersion of $(\mathbb H^2,g_D)$ in $(\ell^2,g_\infty)$ given by $f(x,y)=(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_{2m-1},x_{2m},\dots)$ with
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Does there exist a closed geodesic go through a $\epsilon$-net of a hyperbolic surface?
An $\epsilon$-net of a closed hyperbolic surface $X$ is a finite set of points $p_i$ such that the family of balls centered at $p_i$ with radius $\epsilon$ is a cover of $X$, and the family of balls ...
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Non-Haken hyperbolic 3-manifolds without nonorientable surfaces
It is well known that there exist infinitely many (non homeomorphic) non-Haken closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. These can be obtained for example doing Dehn surgery on the figure eight knot complement. ...
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Infinitesimal deformations of fake projective planes (or ball quotients)
This question is related to the answer I gave to this MO question. What I'm asking is probably well-known to the experts in the field, and I apologize in advance if this turns out to be trivial.
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Area of hyperbolic triangle in terms of Lengths of its sides
Let a, b and c denote the cosh of the lengths of the
sides of an hyperbolic triangle and A, B, and C its angles.
Its area is well knwon to be S = pi - A - B - C .
What is S in terms of a, b, c ?
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Can one use the continuity method to show that the two dimensional hyperbolic space can be immersed in five dimensional Euclidean space?
First of all, I must clarify at the outset that I am simply asking if there is an alternative way to solve an already known problem. It is known that the answer to my question is yes. The problem is ...
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Subgroup structure of $\mathrm{SO}(1,n)_0$
A classification (up to conjugacy) of all closed subgroups of the (identity component of the) Lorentz group $\mathrm{SO}(1,3)_0$ in terms of the subalgebras of its Lie algebra was given in
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Contracting maps of hyperbolic manifolds
Is it possible for SOME positive $c$, $c<1$ to find a pair of COMPACT hyperbolic manfiolds $M^3$ and $N^3$
with a positive degree map $$f: M^3 \to N^3,$$ such that $f$ is contacting with constant $...
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When do two measured foliations on a surface define a Riemann surface structure?
Let $S$ be smooth surface of finite type, i.e. it has genus g and n punctures (assume $S$ to have negative Euler characteristic). We know by Hubbard-Masur theorem that given a measured foliation $(F,\...
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The stabilizers of the canonical boundary action of hyperbolic groups
My question is that
Is every stabilizer of the canonical boundary action of a hyperbolic group on its Gromov boundary a finitely generated group?
I guess every stabilizer is a (finitely generated) ...
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Is the heat kernel for the hyperbolic plane uniformly continuous in $t\in(0,\infty)$?
let $\mathbb{H}$ be the hyperbolic plane and let $k(t,x,y)$ be the associated heat kernel.
I am wondering, if for any fixed $y\in M$ and $\epsilon >0$ the function $u_t(x):=k(t,x,y)$ is continuous ...
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Teichmuller distance between isospectral riemann surfaces
Let $S$ be a surface of negative Euler characteristic (for simplicity let's assume $S$ to be closed), and let $\mathcal{M}(S)$ denote the moduli space of hyperbolic surfaces homeomorphic to $S$.
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For $f$ geodesically convex with $L$-Lipschitz-gradient on hyperbolic space, is $f(x)-f(x^*)\leq(\mathrm{const}) \cdot L r$ for all $x \in B(x^*, r)$?
$\DeclareMathOperator\dist{dist}$Setting: Let $M$ be a hyperbolic space of sectional curvature $-1$, and let $f \colon M\to \mathbb{R}$ be a $C^2$, geodesically convex function which has $L$-Lipschitz-...
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Smoothness of boundary of $r$-neighborhood of convex core
The boundary of an $r$-neighborhood of the convex core of hyperbolic $n$-manifold is smooth, by page 73 of Hyperbolic Manifolds and Kleinian Groups. The authors does not provide a proof for this fact. ...
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Asking SnapPy for core curves after surgery
Suppose I give SnapPy a cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold (using, say, the link editor) and specify some filling. SnapPy can then provide a presentation of the fundamental group of the filled manifold. Can ...
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Hyperbolic manifolds containing totally geodesic hypersurfaces which themselves contain totally geodesic hypersurfaces
I will preface this by saying that while I am familiar with the general theory of (semi)-Riemannian manifolds, I am a complete novice when it comes to the specifics of hyperbolic manifolds (I am using ...
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