A method to find ideal points from ideal triangulations

TL;DR

This paper presents a straightforward technique to determine ideal points of the character variety of a 3-manifold using its ideal triangulation, facilitating analysis of the manifold's geometric structures.

Contribution

The authors introduce a novel, simple method for computing ideal points directly from ideal triangulations, advancing tools available for 3-manifold analysis.

Findings

Method effectively computes ideal points from triangulations.

Simplifies analysis of 3-manifold character varieties.

Potential applications in geometric topology.

Abstract

We give a simple method to find ideal points of the character variety of a 3-manifold from an ideal triangulation.