Triangulations of 3-manifolds. (English) Zbl 1047.57011

Rubinstein, J. Hyam

Li, Benghe (ed.) et al., Low dimensional topology. Lectures presented during the program on low-dimensional topology held at the Morningside Center of Mathematics, Beijing, China, 1998/1999. Somerville, MA: International Press (ISBN 1-57146-112-4/pbk). New Stud. Adv. Math. 3, 74-77 (2003).

From the text: In 1995, A. Casson gave a lecture at Montreal on a new approach to finding hyperbolic metrics on certain 3-manifolds with tori boundary. We extend ideas of Casson about the types of special triangulations of 3-manifolds which are related to such metrics.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1034.57002].

MSC:

57N10	Topology of general \(3\)-manifolds (MSC2010)
57Q15	Triangulating manifolds
57M50	General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

Keywords:

hyperbolic metrics; 3-manifolds; triangulations of 3-manifolds