Questions tagged [hyperbolic-geometry]
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A quick and elementary question from Hubbard's Teichmuller Theory : Volume I
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On page 120, chapter 4, proposition 4.2.7 in Hubbard's Teichmuller Theory book, volume 1, he proves :
Let $U,V$ be open in $C, f:U \to V $ be a homeomorphism and the restriction of $f$ on $U \...
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Capacity of Balls in Hyperbolic Space
Given $M$ a Riemannian manifold and $\Omega\subset M$ the capacity of $\Omega$ is defined as
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\mathrm{cap}(\Omega)=\inf \int_{M\setminus\Omega}{|\mathrm{grad} \varphi|^2 dV}
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Conformal map between flat and hyperbolic torus with a boundary
I am confused because I can define two very different complex structures on the torus with a puncture/boundary.
For my first construction, I can imagine removing a disk from a flat torus, inheriting ...
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Infinitely divisible elements in Gromov hyperbolic groups
An element $g\in G$ in a group $G$ is called infinitely divisible if $b=y^n$ for infinitely many different $n\in {\Bbb Z}$. It is not hard to find a finite CW-complex (or even a compact manifold) ...
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Quadratic cusp shape
Which hyperbolic $3$-manifolds are known to have quadratic cusp shape?
Explanations: Cusps of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds are products torus x interval. They lift to horoballs in hyperbolic $3$-space, ...
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Does there exist a finite hyperbolic geometry in which every line contains at least 3 points, but not every line contains the same number of points?
It seems to me that the answer should be yes, but my naive attempts to come up with an example have failed.
Just to clarify, by finite hyperbolic geometry I mean a finite set of points and lines such ...
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Angle between geodesics in hyperbolic surface
Let $F$ be an oriented surface of finite type with $\chi(F)<0$. Let $\gamma_1$ and $\gamma_2$ are two oriented closed curves which intersect transversally in double points. Given a hyperbolic ...
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Flows in word-hyperbolic groups
I was wondering if there is a good notion of flows in word-hyperbolic groups (maybe I should say flows in the Cayley graphs of word-hyperbolic groups).
More precisely, I wonder if there is an ...
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Mapping torus relative to an infinite orbit can be hyperbolic with finite volume?
Consider a homeomorphism of the sphere with an infinite orbit converging forwards and backwards to the same point. Remove the orbit and the accumulation point and make the mapping torus. Can the ...
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Examples of hyperbolic manifolds of dimension $\geq$ 3 with disjoint totally geodesic hypersurfaces
I am hoping to find examples of compact hyperbolic manifolds with at least 2 disjoint totally geodesic hypersurfaces. Ideally, I would like examples in dimension at least 4, though 3-dimensional ...
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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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Generating sets for $\mathrm{SU}(1,1;\mathcal{O}_K)$ or $\mathrm{PU}(1,1;\mathcal{O}_K)$?
Let $\mathcal{O}_K$ be the ring of integers associated to an imaginary quadratic extension field $K /\mathbb{Q}$, and consider $\Gamma = \mathrm{SU}(1,1;\mathcal{O}_K)$ as a subgroup of $G = \mathrm{...
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Measured geodesic laminations have either discrete or Cantor set local cross-sections
I'm reading through Kerckhoff's paper "The Nielsen Realization Problem": https://www.jstor.org/stable/2007076.
In section 1, after he defines measured geodesic laminations, he makes the ...
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A local isometric immersion from $\mathbb H^{n}$ into $\mathbb R^{2n-1}$
I found this local isometric immersion from $\mathbb H^{n}$ into $\mathbb R^{2n-1}$, given by Schur (1886) in Über die Deformation der Räume constanten Riemannschen Krümmungsmaasses as follows, $(1\...
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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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Copies of $\mathbb{Z}\oplus \mathbb{F}_2$ in non-affine, irreducible Coxeter groups
Let $\left(W,S\right)$ be a non-affine, irreducible Coxeter system and assume that $W$ contains a copy of $\mathbb{Z}\oplus\mathbb{Z}$ (this is equivalent to $W$ being not word hyperbolic). Does this ...
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When entropy SRB measure is zero
It is well known that many strongly chaotic dynamical systems have the property that periodic measures are (weak-star) dense in the space of all invariant probability measures.
Let $f:M \rightarrow ...
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SnapPy isometry routine
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Here's a question that I hope some of you, more experienced in programming, can answer.
Once SnapPy is used to compute the symmetry group of a hyperbolic manifold by way ...
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Cusps in hyperbolic manifolds and fundamental group
I am reading the book "The Arithmetic of Hyperbolic Three Manifolds" by Maclachlan and Reid and I am having some problems in understanding something about cusps.
The definition they give of a cusp is ...
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Harmonic analysis on constant curvature hyperbolic spaces of arbitrary dimension
I am currently looking for a formulation of a Fourier transform on manifolds of constant negative curvature. Specifically, I am looking for generalizations of the two dimensional results on the ...
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Immersed incompressible surfaces in surface bundles
Let $M$ be a closed, oriented, hyperbolic $3$-manifold which is a surface bundle over $\mathbb{S}^1$.
Is there some $\pi_1$-injective closed surface (perhaps not embedded) $S \subset M$ which is not ...
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Fuchsian group which is derived from a division quaternion algebra, Mixing flows on the quotient space
Suppose a Fuchsian group $\Gamma$ is derived from a division
quaternion algebra. Then the quotient space $\Gamma\backslash \mathcal{H}$ is compact.
I am reading the book "Fuchsian Groups" of ...
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How many quadratic fields occur as trace fields of hyperbolic knot complements?
I am interested in when the trace field of a knot complement has the form $F(\sqrt{-d})$ for $F\subset\mathbb{R}$ and $d\in F^+$ (squarefree). Does this occur for infinitely many choices of pairs $(F,...
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Rank of a group generated by side-pairing isometries of a polyhedron
Let $P$ be a compact convex polyhedron in $\mathbb{H}^3$. Let $G$ be a group generated by side-pairing isometries of $P$. Is there an algorithm to find the rank of $G$?
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Coordinates on Teichmuller space
We know that every surface of genus ($g\geq 2$) admits a pair of pants decomposition. And there is the Fenchel Nielsen Coordinates on the Teichmuller space associated to such a decomposition where we ...
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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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Are geometric actions on CAT(0) spaces with isolated flats minimal on the boundary?
Suppose $X$ is a $CAT(0)$ space with isolated flats, $\partial X$ its visual boundary and $G$ acts properly discontinuously amd cocompactly on $X$. Must the $G$ action on $\partial X$ have a dense ...
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About isotopy and homotopy
In the " A Primer on Mapping Class
Groups
Benson Farb and Dan Margalit"
We have :
Proposition 1.10 Let $\alpha$ and $\beta$ be two essential simple closed curves in a surface $S$. Then $\...
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Tzitzeica surface
A Tzitzeica surface has the property that the ratio of the surface’s Gaussian curvature and the fourth power of the distance from the origin to the tangent plane at any arbitrary point of the surface ...
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Elliptic equations in asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds
I am interested in reading about existence and regularity theorems for elliptic equations on manifolds with negative (constant) curvature outside a compact subset. I am aware of some results in this ...
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Ideal triangulation of hyperbolic 3-manifold with generic mapping class group
I am from physics background so I apologize in advance if my question is trivial.
Kojima proves for every finite group $G$, there is a hyperbolic 3-manifold such that its mapping class group equals $G$...
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Computation of cusp shape from vertex invariants
Following Takahashi ("On the concrete construction of hyperbolic structure of 3-manifolds"), I was able to construct the Euclidean cusp cross-section for the 5_2 knot complement (please see ...
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Topology on the boundary compactification $X^{-}=\partial X\cup X$ of a Gromov-hyperbolic space
Consider a proper geodesic $\delta$-hyperbolic space $X$ (in the sense of Gromov). Let ∂𝑋 be its Gromov boundary. In the book "Geometric Group Theory" by Cornelia Druţu and Michael Kapovich https://...
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On Thurston's triangulations of sphere
I have two questions from Thurston's paper [1].
In the paper [1], Thurston talks about classifying certain classes of triangulations of the sphere. Here a triangulation of a sphere a Topological ...
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fundamental domains in H^2 containing large balls
I would like to construct a genus $g$ surface regularly tiled by triangles (for example by 238 triangles). Edmunds-Ewing-Kulkarni prove that the only obstruction to doing this is Euler characteristic ...
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The Weyl law for lengths
For what I know, this must be a standard fact, but I can't spot it in the literature I have on hands. What is the asymptotic of the geodesic
lengths spectrum for the modular surface $X(1)$? (That is, ...
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Geometric realization of an abstract triangulation of the plane
Can every abstract simplicial complex whose geometric realization is homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^2$ be realized by a rectilinear triangulation of the Euclidean plane? Alternatively put, can a curvy (...
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Eigenvalues vs resonances
I understand that for infinite-area hyperbolic surfaces, there are no $L^2$-eigenfunctions of the Laplace-Beltrami operator but there are a lot resonances.
But I am confused about the notion of ...
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Comparing two Delaunay tessellations on a hyperbolic surface
Let $S$ be a closed hyperbolic surface (i.e. a compact Riemann surface of genus $\geq 2$) and let $P=\{p_1,\ldots,p_m\}$ be a non-empty finite subset of $m$ points in $S$. Let $\pi:\mathbb H\...
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Volume of a geodesic simplex on a manifold of non-positive curvature.
Let $M$ be a simply connected manifold that admits a metric of non-positive curvature. For example take $\mathbb{R}^k\times \mathbb{H}^n$. Take $m+1$ points $x_0$, $x_1, \ldots$ $x_m$, $m>k+1$ and ...
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Characterization of the moduli space of the pair of pants in terms of the modules of the extremal ring domains
Hi, I was thinking about the following question ; I will appreciate it if somebody can give me a full or partial answer or can at least cite any reference(s)/ papers etc :
By $ \bar{P} $ , we ...
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a little question about Heegaard splitting
for any compact orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold with totally geodesic boundary, is there a strongly irreducible heegaard splitting?
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For which quadratic number field, the algebraic integers are cusps for some Coxeter group?
Let $H^2=\{(x,y)\mid y>0\}$ be the hyperbolic upper-half plane.
Let $K=Q(\sqrt{d})$ be a quadratic number field, and $\mathcal{O}_K$ be the ring of algebraic integers in it.
Let $\Gamma=\Delta(p,q,...
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Complex length of geodesic added in hyperbolic Dehn surgery
Suppose $M$ is a cusped finite-volume hyperbolic $3$-manifold, say with a single cusp for simplicity. Following [NZ, Section 4] we can parametrize deformations of the hyperbolic structure with a ...
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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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Lipschitz property of holonomies fails when stable leaves $W^s(x)$ inside the leaves $W^{ss}(x)$
Let $M$ be compact manifold. suppose $f:M\rightarrow M$ is $C^{2}$.
There is a continuous splitting of the tangent bundle $TM=E^{ss}+E^{s}+E^{u}$ invariant under the derivative $Df$ of the ...
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Additivity of simplicial volume
I have read for example in the introduction of http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0506338v2.pdf about the property that if we glue hyperbolic manifolds with geodesic boundary consisting of tori along some tori,...
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Inheritance of arithmeticity properties in orbifold strata
Suppose $M = K\backslash G/\Gamma$ is a quotient of a symmetric space by a lattice. I don't know all of the proper adjectives to apply here (e.g. what should be said about $G$ and so on), but I wouldn'...
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Explanation of perpendicularity of a Jacobian vector field
Here are some notes on hyperbolic manifolds. The aim is to prove that if $M_1$ and $M_2$ are simply connected, complete Riemannian manifolds having constant sectional curvature of $-1$, then $M_1$ and ...
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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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