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Toroidal Dehn fillings on hyperbolic 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2009-09-29 v1

Abstract

We determine all hyperbolic 3-manifolds MM admitting two toroidal Dehn fillings at distance 4 or 5. We show that if MM is a hyperbolic 3-manifold with a torus boundary component T0T_0, and r,sr,s are two slopes on T0T_0 with Δ(r,s)=4\Delta(r,s) = 4 or 5 such that M(r)M(r) and M(s)M(s) both contain an essential torus, then MM is either one of 14 specific manifolds MiM_i, or obtained from M1,M2,M3M_1, M_2, M_3 or M14M_{14} by attaching a solid torus to MiT0\partial M_i - T_0. All the manifolds MiM_i are hyperbolic, and we show that only the first three can be embedded into S3S^3. As a consequence, this leads to a complete classification of all hyperbolic knots in S3S^3 admitting two toroidal surgeries with distance at least 4.

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@article{arxiv.math/0512038,
  title  = {Toroidal Dehn fillings on hyperbolic 3-manifolds},
  author = {Cameron McA. Gordon and Ying-Qing Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0512038},
  year   = {2009}
}
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