1999/07/22 by Michael Kapovich, John J. Millson, Kapovich, Michael +3
Mathematics · #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Symplectic Geometry (math.SG) #math.DG #math.SG
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/9907143
arxiv created 2000/08/21 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We study the symplectic geometry of the moduli space of closed n-gons with fixed side-lengths in hyperbolic 3-space. We prove that these moduli spaces have a symplectic structure coming from Poisson Lie theory. We construct completely integrable systems on these moduli spaces by bending n-gons along their diagonals. The results of this paper are the analogues of the results of the first two authors for n-gon linkages in Euclidean 3-space in JDG 44. We conclude by proving by a deformation argument that the moduli spaces of n-gon linkages in hyperbolic 3-space and Euclidean 3-space with the same set of side-lengths are symplectomorphic.