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September 2009 Quasi-Fuchsian manifolds with particles
Sergiu Moroianu, Jean-Marc Schlenker
J. Differential Geom. 83(1): 75-129 (September 2009). DOI: 10.4310/jdg/1253804352
Abstract

We consider 3-dimensional hyperbolic cone-manifolds which are “convex co-compact” in a natural sense, with cone singularities along infinite lines. Such singularities are sometimes used by physicists as models for massive spinless point particles. We prove an infinitesimal rigidity statement when the angles around the singular lines are less than $\pi$: any infinitesimal deformation changes either these angles, or the conformal structure at infinity with marked points corresponding to the endpoints of the singular lines. Moreover, any small variation of the conformal structure at infinity and of the singular angles can be achieved by a unique small deformation of the cone-manifold structure. These results hold also when the singularities are along a graph, i.e., for “interacting particles”.

Moroianu and Schlenker: Quasi-Fuchsian manifolds with particles
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Sergiu Moroianu and Jean-Marc Schlenker "Quasi-Fuchsian manifolds with particles," Journal of Differential Geometry 83(1), 75-129, (September 2009). https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1253804352
Published: September 2009
Vol.83 • No. 1 • September 2009
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