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The distance between two farthest points on the Bolza surface?
The Bolza surface $M$ is the closed hyperbolic surface of genus $2$ that can be obtained by identifying the opposite sides of the regular octagon in $\mathbb{H}^2$.
What two points on $M$ are ...
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Smooth projective varieties with infinite abelian fundamental group and finite $\pi_2$
Let $X$ be a smooth projective complex algebraic variety of general type. Suppose that the (topological) fundamental group of $X$ is an infinite abelian group and that $\pi_2(X^{an})$ is finite.
What ...
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Andreev's Theorem and Thurston's hyperbolization theorem
I am attempting to get to grips with Thurston's hyperbolization theorem for Haken $3$--manifolds. In particular I was looking at the section related to gluing up along hierarchy surfaces in Otal, ...
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Easy explanation of non-abelianness of hyperbolic curves [migrated]
I'm looking for easy proofs (or just an easy proof) of the following statement:
Let X be a hyperbolic Riemann surface, i.e., $X$ is a Riemann surface and the universal covering of $X$ is the complex ...
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Standard (special) spines and hyperbolic structure on 3-manifolds
My question relates to constructing angled triangulations or hyperbolic triangulations for $3$--manifolds. Briefly, an angle triangulation can be considered as an assignment of a real number (called ...
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Spectral theory for Dirac Laplacian on a funnel
I would like to study the spectral theory of the Dirac Laplacian on a non-compact quotient of the hyperbolic plane by a discrete group (I am particularly interested in the simple case where the ...
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Existence of special pants decompositions for non-elementary representations into PSL(2,R)
A Theorem by Gallo, Goldman and Porter states the following:
Let $S_g$ be a closed orientable surface of genus $g$ with fundamental group $\Gamma_g$, and fix a non-elementary representation ...
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Universal covering of a submanifold with boundary
Good afternoon,
I'm having a hard time trying to prove the following lemma :
Let $V$ be a hyperbolic compact orientable manifold, containing two totally geodesic com pact hypersurfaces $H$ and $G$ ...
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Dehn's algorithm for word problem for surface groups
For some $g \geq 2$, let $\Gamma_g$ be the fundamental group of a closed genus $g$ surface and let $S_g=\{a_1,b_1,\ldots,a_g,b_g\}$ be the usual generating set for $\Gamma_g$ satisfying the surface ...
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Discrete Isoperimetric Problem in the Hyperbolic Plane
Let $S_{g}$ be the closed orientable genus $g$ surface. I'm interested in studying a certain class $\Gamma$ of graphs on $S_{g}$ which fill (the complementary regions are simply connected), and which ...
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The fundamental group of a closed surface without classification of surfaces?
The fundamental group of a closed oriented surface of genus $g$ has the well-known presentation
$$
\langle x_1,\ldots, x_g,y_1,\ldots ,y_g\vert \prod_{i=1}^{g} [x_i,y_i]\rangle.
$$
The proof I know ...
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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 ...
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Topology of boundaries of hyperbolic groups
For many examples of word-hyperbolic groups which I have seen in the context of low-dimensional topology, the ideal boundary is either homeomorphic to a n-sphere for some n or a Cantor set. So, I was ...
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Heegaard genus of covers of cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold
Is there a cusped (non-compact) orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold $M$ which has Heegaard genus $g$, and has a finite-sheeted cover with Heegaard genus $<g$?
Moreover, if the cover is index $n$, then ...
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Comparing different layered structures for fibered 3-manifolds: example request.
Let's consider a fibering hyperbolic 3-manifold obtained as a mapping torus over some hyperbolic surface with pseudo-Anosov monodromy, and let's suppose that the surface is punctured at the singular ...
