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On volumes of hyperideal tetrahedra with constrained edge lengths
Hyperideal tetrahedra are the fundamental building blocks of hyperbolic
3-manifolds with geodesic boundary. The study of their geometric properties (in
particular, of their volume) has applications also in other areas of
low-dimensional topology, like the computation of quantum invariants of
3-manifolds and the use of variational methods in the study of circle packings
on surfaces.
The Schl\"afli formula neatly describes the behaviour of the volume of
hyperideal tetrahedra with respect to dihedral angles, while the dependence of
volume on edge lengths is worse understood. In this paper we prove that, for
every , where is an explicit constant, regular hyperideal
tetrahedra of edge length maximize the volume among hyperideal
tetrahedra whose edge lengths are all not smaller than .
This result provides a fundamental step in the computation of the ideal
simplicial volume of an infinite family of hyperbolic 3-manifolds with geodesic
boundary.Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures, Some minor changes, To appear in Periodica
Mathematica Hungaric
Volumes of polytopes in spaces of constant curvature
We overview the volume calculations for polyhedra in Euclidean, spherical and
hyperbolic spaces. We prove the Sforza formula for the volume of an arbitrary
tetrahedron in and . We also present some results, which provide a
solution for Seidel problem on the volume of non-Euclidean tetrahedron.
Finally, we consider a convex hyperbolic quadrilateral inscribed in a circle,
horocycle or one branch of equidistant curve. This is a natural hyperbolic
analog of the cyclic quadrilateral in the Euclidean plane. We find a few
versions of the Brahmagupta formula for the area of such quadrilateral. We also
present a formula for the area of a hyperbolic trapezoid.Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures, 58 reference
Tetrahedra of flags, volume and homology of SL(3)
In the paper we define a "volume" for simplicial complexes of flag
tetrahedra. This generalizes and unifies the classical volume of hyperbolic
manifolds and the volume of CR tetrahedra complexes. We describe when this
volume belongs to the Bloch group. In doing so, we recover and generalize
results of Neumann-Zagier, Neumann, and Kabaya. Our approach is very related to
the work of Fock and Goncharov.Comment: 45 pages, 14 figures. The first version of the paper contained a
mistake which is correct here. Hopefully the relation between the works of
Neumann-Zagier on one side and Fock-Goncharov on the other side is now much
cleare
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