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Thick-skinned 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2014-08-29 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We show that if the totally geodesic boundary of a compact hyperbolic 3-manifold M has a large collar of depth d, then the diameter of the skinning map of M is no more than A exp(-d) for some A depending only on the genus and injectivity radius of the boundary of M.

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@article{arxiv.1305.2412,
  title  = {Thick-skinned 3-manifolds},
  author = {Richard P. Kent and Yair N. Minsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2412},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

v2. Referee's comments incorporated. Estimate of main theorem improved. General gluing theorem added. To appear in GAFA. 20 pages, 5 figures. v1. 17 pages, 4 figures

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