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TauCeti.Geometry.Manifold.Riemannian.Hyperbolic.Volume

Volumes of hyperbolic metrics #

This file connects the bundled TauCeti.HyperbolicMetric with the Riemannian volume API. A hyperbolic metric is data, so its volume is defined as the total volume of the carried Riemannian metric. Metric-independence is the volume consequence of Mostow rigidity, which is taken here as the hypothesis TauCeti.IsMostowRigid rather than proved.

The volume construction follows J. M. Lee, Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds, 2nd ed., Chapter 2. Metric-independence uses Mostow rigidity in J. Ratcliffe, Foundations of Hyperbolic Manifolds, 3rd ed., Theorem 11.8.5.

Main definitions #

The total Riemannian volume carried by a bundled complete constant-curvature -1 metric.

Instances For

    Hyperbolic volume is nonnegative, as a total Riemannian volume.

    The volume is preserved by any bundled hyperbolic-metric isometry.

    Mostow rigidity identifies the total volumes of any two bundled hyperbolic metrics.

    Metric-independent hyperbolic volume #

    The hyperbolic volume of a compact manifold carrying a hyperbolic metric.

    The definition chooses one bundled hyperbolic metric. On a closed connected manifold of dimension at least three, TauCeti.hypVolume_eq_hypVolumeOfMetric shows that, under the Mostow-rigidity hypothesis TauCeti.IsMostowRigid, the result equals the volume of every hyperbolic metric. Mostow rigidity itself is not proved in this file.

    Instances For

      Hyperbolic volume is the volume of the chosen bundled hyperbolic metric.

      The hyperbolic volume of a compact hyperbolic manifold is nonnegative.

      On a closed connected manifold of dimension at least three, Mostow rigidity makes hyperbolic volume independent of the metric chosen in its definition.