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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, February 28, 2002 - 4:30pm

Jean-Marc Schlenker

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

Let M be a 3-manifold with boundary which admits a complete, convex co-compact hyperbolic metric. We are interested in the (non-complete) hyperbolic metrics on M such that the boundary looks locally like an ideal hyperbolic polyhedron. We will give a description of the possible dihedral angles at the edges, and some partial results on the induced metrics on the boundary. As a by-product, we obtain an affine structure on the Teichmuller space of a surface of genus at least 2 with some marked points.