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Hyperbolic Dehn filling in dimension four
We introduce and study some deformations of complete finite-volume hyperbolic
four-manifolds that may be interpreted as four-dimensional analogues of
Thurston's hyperbolic Dehn filling.
We construct in particular an analytic path of complete, finite-volume cone
four-manifolds that interpolates between two hyperbolic four-manifolds
and with the same volume . The deformation looks
like the familiar hyperbolic Dehn filling paths that occur in dimension three,
where the cone angle of a core simple closed geodesic varies monotonically from
to . Here, the singularity of is an immersed geodesic surface
whose cone angles also vary monotonically from to . When a cone angle
tends to a small core surface (a torus or Klein bottle) is drilled
producing a new cusp.
We show that various instances of hyperbolic Dehn fillings may arise,
including one case where a degeneration occurs when the cone angles tend to
, like in the famous figure-eight knot complement example.
The construction makes an essential use of a family of four-dimensional
deforming hyperbolic polytopes recently discovered by Kerckhoff and Storm.Comment: 60 pages, 23 figures. Final versio
Toric topology
We survey some results on toric topology.Comment: English translation of the Japanese article which appeared in
"Sugaku" vol. 62 (2010), 386-41
On canonical triangulations of once-punctured torus bundles and two-bridge link complements
We prove the hyperbolization theorem for punctured torus bundles and
two-bridge link complements by decomposing them into ideal tetrahedra which are
then given hyperbolic structures, following Rivin's volume maximization
principle.Comment: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology on 16 September
2006. Appendix by David Fute
Nonperturbative dynamics for abstract (p,q) string networks
We describe abstract (p,q) string networks which are the string networks of
Sen without the information about their embedding in a background spacetime.
The non-perturbative dynamical formulation invented for spin networks, in terms
of causal evolution of dual triangulations, is applied to them. The formal
transition amplitudes are sums over discrete causal histories that evolve (p,q)
string networks. The dynamics depend on two free SL(2,Z) invariant functions
which describe the amplitudes for the local evolution moves.Comment: Latex, 12 pages, epsfig, 7 figures, minor change
New hyperbolic 4-manifolds of low volume
We prove that there are at least 2 commensurability classes of minimal-volume
hyperbolic 4-manifolds. Moreover, by applying a well-known technique due to
Gromov and Piatetski-Shapiro, we build the smallest known non-arithmetic
hyperbolic 4-manifold.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figures. Added the Coxeter diagrams of the
commensurability classes of the manifolds. New and better proof of Lemma 2.2.
Modified statements and proofs of the main theorems: now there are two
commensurabilty classes of minimal volume manifolds. Typos correcte
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