Smooth manifold structure conjecture for hyperbolic cone metrics

Let SS be the marked surface, let P\mathcal{P} be its marked points, let nn be the relevant parameter, and let α(0,2π)P\alpha\in(0,2\pi)^{\mathcal{P}} be the tuple of angle defects. For each triangulation T\mathcal{T} of SS, let φT\varphi_{\mathcal{T}} be the corresponding coordinate map on Hypα(S)\operatorname{Hyp}_{\alpha}(S). Smooth manifold structure conjecture. Under some constraint on the cone angles, in particular when

pPαp>2π(n1),\sum_{p\in\mathcal{P}}\alpha_p>2\pi(n-1),

the cone angles at the last n3n-3 marked points are near 4π4\pi, and the inequality from Corollary~ is satisfied, Hypα(S)\operatorname{Hyp}_{\alpha}(S) admits a smooth manifold structure for which every map φT\varphi_{\mathcal{T}} is a diffeomorphism onto its image. The preceding atlas gives Hypα(S)\operatorname{Hyp}_{\alpha}(S) a topological manifold structure, while the implicit-function-theorem argument is expected to establish smoothness for at least some angle data; the precise angle constraints remain to be verified.

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Aaron Fenyes and Arnaud Maret, “The geometry of Deroin-Tholozan representations”, arXiv:2312.09199 (2025).

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