Combinatorial Ricci flow on cusped 3-manifolds

arXiv2009.05477MaRDI QIDQ6348913

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Publication date: 11 September 2020

Abstract: Combinatorial Ricci flow on a cusped $3$-manifold is an analogue of Chow-Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow on surfaces and Luo's combinatorial Ricci flow on compact $3$-manifolds with boundary for finding complete hyperbolic metrics on cusped $3$-manifolds. Dual to Casson and Rivin's program of maximizing the volume of angle structures, combinatorial Ricci flow finds the complete hyperbolic metric on a cusped $3$-manifold by minimizing the co-volume of decorated hyperbolic polyhedral metrics. The combinatorial Ricci flow may develop singularities. We overcome this difficulty by extending the flow through the potential singularities using Luo-Yang's extension. It is shown that the existence of a complete hyperbolic metric on a cusped $3$-manifold is equivalent to the convergence of the extended combinatorial Ricci flow, which gives a new characterization of existence of a complete hyperbolic metric on a cusped $3$-manifold dual to Casson and Rivin's program. The extended combinatorial Ricci flow also provides an effective algorithm for finding complete hyperbolic metrics on cusped $3$-manifolds.

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