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Title: Volume and rigidity of hyperbolic polyhedral 3-manifolds: VOLUME AND RIGIDITY OF HYPERBOLIC POLYHEDRAL 3-MANIFOLDS
Authors:
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Award ID(s):
1222663
Publication Date:
NSF-PAR ID:
10056067
Journal Name:
Journal of Topology
Volume:
11
Issue:
1
Page Range or eLocation-ID:
1 to 29
ISSN:
1753-8416
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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  1. Abstract

    We define a relative version of the Turaev–Viro invariants for an ideally triangulated compact 3‐manifold with nonempty boundary and a coloring on the edges, generalizing the Turaev–Viro invariants [36] of the manifold. We also propose the volume conjecture for these invariants whose asymptotic behavior is related to the volume of the manifold in the hyperbolic polyhedral metric [22, 23] with singular locus of the edges and cone angles determined by the coloring, and prove the conjecture in the case that the cone angles are sufficiently small. This suggests an approach of solving the volume conjecture for the Turaev–Viro invariants proposed by Chen–Yang [8] for hyperbolic 3‐manifolds with totally geodesic boundary.

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