Rivin-type realization conjecture for non-contractible angled blocks

Let \pp\pp be a compact, oriented, irreducible, atoroidal 33-manifold with boundary equipped with an angled block structure, and let \pp~\tilde{\pp} denote its universal cover. The angled block structure assigns internal angles αi\alpha_i and external angles εi=παi\varepsilon_i=\pi-\alpha_i to dual edges, satisfying 0<αi<π0<\alpha_i<\pi, with external-angle sum 2π2\pi around each face and sum greater than 2π2\pi around every other simple closed curve in the dual graph that bounds a disk in \pp\pp. Rivin-type realization conjecture. The universal cover \pp~\tilde{\pp} can be realized as a possibly infinite ideal polyhedron in H3\mathbb{H}^3, with dihedral angles specified by \pp\pp, uniquely up to isometry. Rivin's theorem establishes the analogous realization and uniqueness statement for contractible angled blocks, namely angled polyhedra; the conjecture proposes that the result extends to non-contractible angled blocks.

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David Futer and François Guéritaud, “Angled decompositions of arborescent link complements”, arXiv:math/0610775 (2006).

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