A Cantor set with hyperbolic complement

Souto, Juan; Stover, Matthew

doi:10.1090/S1088-4173-2013-00249-X

A Cantor set with hyperbolic complement
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Abstract:

We construct a Cantor set in $\mathbb {S}^3$ whose complement admits a complete hyperbolic metric.

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