Holed cone structures on 3-manifolds

Abstract

We introduce holed cone structures on 3-manifolds to generalize cone structures. In the same way as a cone structure, a holed cone structure induces the holonomy representation. We consider the deformation space consisting of the holed cone structures on a 3-manifold whose holonomy representations are irreducible. This deformation space for positive cone angles is a covering space on a reasonable subspace of the character variety.