Pleated surface

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title: Pleated surface
text: In geometry, a pleated surface is roughly a surface that may have simple folds but is not crumpled in more complicated ways. More precisely, a pleated surface is an isometry from a complete hyperbolic surface S to a hyperbolic 3-fold such that every point of S is in the interior of a geodesic that is mapped to a geodesic. They were introduced by Thurston, where they were called uncrumpled surfaces. The Universal Book of Mathematics provides the following information about pleated surfaces: It is
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description: Type of geometric surface with folds
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