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Existence of an exotic plane in an acylindrical 3-manifold

Geometric Topology 2022-03-21 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Let PP be a geodesic plane in a convex cocompact, acylindrical hyperbolic 3-manifold MM. Assume that P=MPP^*=M^*\cap P is nonempty, where MM^* is the interior of the convex core of MM. Does this condition imply that PP is either closed or dense in MM? A positive answer would furnish an analogue of Ratner's theorem in the infinite volume setting. In arXiv:1802.03853 it is shown that PP^* is either closed or dense in MM^*. Moreover, there are at most countably many planes with PP^* closed, and in all previously known examples, PP was also closed in MM. In this note we show more exotic behavior can occur: namely, we give an explicit example of a pair (M,P)(M,P) such that PP^* is closed in MM^* but PP is not closed in MM. In particular, the answer to the question above is no. Thus Ratner's theorem fails to generalize to planes in acylindrical 3-manifolds, without additional restrictions.

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@article{arxiv.2101.08956,
  title  = {Existence of an exotic plane in an acylindrical 3-manifold},
  author = {Yongquan Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.08956},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

15 pages, 9 figures. v2 minor change of title; updated to incorporate referee comments. To appear in Math. Res. Lett