Ahlfors Bers Colloquium
May
19-22, 2005
University of
Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Registration
Organizers
Dick
Canary
Juha
Heinonen
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Workshop
Abstract Detail
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Roland Roeder Cornell University
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Combinitorial aspects of Andreev's classification of Hyperbolic Polyhedra.
In 1970, E. M. Andreev published a classification of all three-dimensional compact hyperbolic polyhedra having non-obtuse dihedral angles. Given a combinatorial description of a polyhedron, C, Andreev's Theorem provides five classes of linear inequalities, depending on C, for the dihedral angles, which are necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a hyperbolic polyhedron realizing C with the assigned dihedral angles. Andreev's Theorem also shows that the resulting polyhedron is unique, up to hyperbolic isometry. Andreev's Theorem is both an interesting statement about the geometry of hyperbolic 3-dimensional space, as well as a fundamental tool used in the proof for Thurston's Hyperbolization Theorem for 3-dimensional Haken manifolds. It is also remarkable to what level the proof of Andreev's Theorem resembles (in a simpler way) the proof of Thurston. In this talk I will explain a fundamental error in Andreev's proof of existence and explain my correction of this error. This is joint work with John H. Hubbard and William Dunbar. | ||
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