Existence of an exotic plane in an acylindrical 3-manifold
Abstract
Let be a geodesic plane in a convex cocompact, acylindrical hyperbolic 3-manifold . Assume that is nonempty, where is the interior of the convex core of . Does this condition imply that is either closed or dense in ? A positive answer would furnish an analogue of Ratner's theorem in the infinite volume setting. In arXiv:1802.03853 it is shown that is either closed or dense in . Moreover, there are at most countably many planes with closed, and in all previously known examples, was also closed in . In this note we show more exotic behavior can occur: namely, we give an explicit example of a pair such that is closed in but is not closed in . 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